I want to get the heights right, add structure and create some lovely drifts of colour,” she says, reeling off the names of some of her latest purchases – among them, Cephalaria gigantea ...

One of the rarest jellyfish in the world, Stygiomedusa gigantea, usually drifts in the ocean’s twilight zone (1,000-4,000 meters deep). In 2022, a deep-sea submersible recorded an unexpected sighting ...

Image courtesy of Gardens by the Bay The showcase displayed more than 60 taxa of orchids, including the Dendrobium Snowflake “Red Star”, the Pahiopedilum exul, Rhynchostylis gigantea ...

Micropropagation studies were carried out using the seeds for establishing an in vitro culture of Vriesea gigantea and Vriesea philippocoburgii. Germination rate of V. gigantea was higher than of V.

C. gigantea shows antidiabetic effects by significantly decreasing alpha-amylase levels in the body. This suggests that giant puffballs can be used as a functional food to maintain blood sugar ...

The Bebb Herbarium is a member of the Texas-Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) which has consolidated their plant collections into a online database. Developing a comprehensive resource ...

But the saguaro species (Carnegiea gigantea), native to the Sonoran Desert in the United States and Mexico, hides another evolutionary trick. To capture it in action, a park biologist named Don ...

Take a deep dive into the fascinating creatures that live in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on the planet The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on the planet, plunging down to 10,984 metres ...

The students behind efforts to name the Calvatia gigantea the state mushroom of Illinois had an opportunity to learn more about the “giant puffball” at the Field Museum on Tuesday. Among the attendees ...

Oleg Kovtun/iStock via Getty Images A plant named after decaying flesh is sure to have a terrible smell. The carrion plant (Stapelia gigantea), also called the Zulu giant, is native to southeast ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but with Zulu giants (Stapelia gigantea), what you see is not quite what you get. The stunning flowers of this succulent resemble starfish with their ...