The history of mistletoe is the stuff of lore, but growing this wild parasitic plant is less mysterious than you may think.

The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...

About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic. Read on to discover 10 interesting examples of parasitic plants, where they can be found and how they steal nutrients from other ...

Caption This time-lapse video shows how the parasitic plant dodder attacks tomatoes. But beyond stealing nutrients from the host plants, a Virginia Tech researcher has discovered that the two ...

Beetle Trap Plant: Parasitic, no chlorophyll, mimics fungi, attracts dung beetles, carrion beetles. Alien-like appearance, from South Africa. Cape Sundew: Carnivorous plant, feasts on insects, ...

tubiflorus fruit. Parasitic Plants Rely on Unusual Method to Spread Their Seeds (Fig. 3) Parasitic Plants Rely on Unusual Method to Spread Their Seeds (Fig. 5) ...

Revealing a sensitive germination receptor in parasitic plants brings researchers closer to eradicating a major source of African crop damage and food insecurity. From summer to autumn in sub ...

Tristerix is a parasitic plant that infects hedgehog cacti (Echinopsis chiloensis), it bursts out of its host's skin to produce flowers which are pollinated by hummingbirds. These then produce ...

The reductive revolution of parasitic plants' plastid genomes now is clearly understood, while still little is known about mitochondrial genomes. Based on comparative genome analysis of autotrophic, ...