Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

Trees have taken a bashing since Christmas with storms Brendan, Ciara and Dennis following on each other's heels in quick succession. To add to their problems, the high levels of rainfall resulted in ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Monophyly of extant gymnosperms places them all equally distant from the angiosperms, which means that the lineage that eventually ...