Miconia’s large leaves make it easy to find, but are part of the reason it’s targeted for removal in Hawaii. Large leaves shade out other plants and collect rainwater, leading to soil ...

WAILUA — It’s around 8:30 a.m. on a wet, rainy Thursday when Eric John-Garcia spots the culprit’s dark green and purple leaves shining through a small opening of thick vegetation just off ...

Caterpillars of the golden miconia butterfly can only survive on miconia and related plants. The caterpillars get together in clumps and devour the leaves. In doing so, they may reduce the damage ...

These 5 invasive plants causing problems around the world. Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonic), pictured above, is a species native to eastern Asia that has been wreaking havoc in North America ...

Feral pigs feed primarily on plants but also on earthworms, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. Miconia (Miconia calvescens) This plant from Central and South America was brought to Tahiti ...

Nearly half of all the plants found here, around 1000 species, are found nowhere else in the world. Hawaii is an important place for a programme about the relationship between plants and humans.

With their primary predator eliminated, elk populations exploded, leading to the overgrazing of plants, especially those found in riparian zones (Laliberte & Ripple 2004). Significant declines in ...

Oct. 16, 2024 — From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows ...

We have seen so many of the world’s worst plant species established in Sri Lanka such as the water hyacinth, salvinia, lantana, alligator weed, giant mimosa, miconia, parthenium etc. We can overcome ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

Invasive plants are doing more than just taking over landscapes—they're also changing the soil beneath them. A new study co-authored by Matthew McCary, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice ...

What about a towering tree covered in dainty white blossoms during the spring? These common ornamental plants might be pretty ...