I saw a lot of things during my years as a professional gardener, and thankfully, the vast majority of the time it was a ...

The well-known Portuguese man o’ war — Physalia physalis — may look like a jellyfish, but it’s actually a siphonophore, or a colony of animals that live together to create the complete structure, ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle—also known ...

This helped produce a clear understanding of the morphologies, which, when coupled with the genetics research, produced four ...

Thousands of them wash up on Australian beaches every summer but scientists have only just discovered that there's more than one species of bluebottle on the planet. Until recently the bluebottle or ...

You can grow these five plants in small spaces, even if you lack a garden. The summer months are finally here, and lots of us ...

Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Biotechnology, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan, Republic of China, Natural ...

The Physalis genus is mainly characterized by its medicinal potential, but its fruits, with a typical inflated chalice around them (Tomassini et al. 2000), have a high nutritive value and are marketed ...

Physalis species are used in folk medicine for phytotherapeutic properties. The extracts of medicinal plants are known to possess cytotoxic and chemopreventative compounds. In this study we ...