Botany
Photolab
Plant-stem lace
If you take a thin slice of a young stem of Acleisanthes chenopodioides and look at it under a microscope, this is what you will see
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Photolab
Inside the vines
The dyed stem cross-sections in the images show the stiffer and the more flexible parts of forest vines
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Botany
Plants with miner roots
Study demonstrates a new function of the roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha
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Botany
Rare Cuban flora
The library at Cornell University, USA, has published a scanned copy of a nineteenth-century manuscript on Cuban flora by American botanist Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft on its website
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Botanics
The origin of the mango flower’s sweet smell
In the mango and cajuzinho-do-campo flowers, the scent glands are located at the inner base of the petals
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Photolab
A perfect fit
Frogs are very particular when choosing the flowers in which they will spend their whole lives
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photolab
Splendor at the highest heights
High in the Itatiaia mountains in Rio de Janeiro, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, the brightly colored flowers of the Buddleja speciosissima demand attention
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HERITAGE
The pain of loss
Six hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America
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Biodiversity
A complex relationship between insects and plants
Female beetles visit the orchids and transfer pollen from the male organ to the female organ of the same flower
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ENGINEERING
Wood identification
Computer vision systems identify the quality of wood boards and their tree species
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Botany
All of the known plants in the Americas, for now
Brazil and Colombia are top of a recently published survey on the diversity of vascular plants in the Americas
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PHARMACY
An eclectic plant
Jambu is used not only in the kitchen but also in cosmetics, and could be used in dentistry and to kill ticks
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