If you’re in the market for new trees, consider planting natives. They're generally lower maintenance than exotic species, ...

The resilient, native fruit has a cult following and could be small farms’ hedge against climate change in a fast-warming ...

The small greenish flowers grow on trees in their native Mexico and other warm climates. However, despite fitting all the requirements for a fruit, avocados are more often treated as vegetables in ...

Dried fruit has a reputation for being high in calories and sugar, but experts say it can be just as good for you as fresh. True, dried fruit will have more sugar by weight than the fresh version ...

Dragon fruit—also called pitaya, pitahaya, or strawberry pear—is an oval-shaped tropical fruit. It grows on vining cactus plants of the Hylocereus or Selenicereus genus. Dragon fruit grows to the size ...

However, the tree, which is now more than 14 years old and almost 10 feet (3 meters) tall, has neither flowered nor borne fruit. Without these more easily identifiable features, it’s not ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...