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Bitter sweet nectar: Why some flowers poison bees
Plants provide pollinators with nectar as a reward for their services, so why lace it with mind-bending toxins? Their motivations are surprisingly devious
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Werewolf plant waits for the light of the full moon
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Conifer seed fossils caught learning helicopter flight
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The wonders of orchids: Beautiful, smelly and sexy
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Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn
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Earth
Dawn of farming sparked speed-evolution in weeds
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A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens
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Tumbling weeds: The rolling invasion of the US
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Metal-eating plants could mine riches through roots
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Mexican plants could break code on gibberish manuscript
Pictures in the undecipherable Voynich manuscript look like 16th-century Mexican plants and could be key to translating it, but some still say it's a hoax
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English guidebook opens China’s floral treasure chest
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Extreme rhubarb: The plant that grows a greenhouse
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The great greening: The coming of our new lush Earth
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Delicate nano-flowers coaxed from simple seeds
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