Parasitic fungus may have emerged 18 million years before the ants with which it lives today

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ...
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Ultra-rare carnivorous 'killer plant' found lurking on city's doorstep

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...
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Natural β-Dihydroagarofuran-Type Sesquiterpenoids as Cognition-Enhancing and Neuroprotective Agents from Medicinal Plants of the Genus Celastrus

† State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People’s Republic of China ‡ CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, ...
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An Extremely Rare And Beautiful "Meat-Eating" Plant Has Been Found Miles From Its Known Home

Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plantDrosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining populations of this “meat-eating” flower, both of which have found themselves ...