Tropical Plant International Expo showcased more than 400 companies that specialize in the industry in Florida.

With its beautiful, long, pink-tinged leaves, the Hawaiian ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa) is a popular house or conservatory ...

Gardeners should keep an eye out for these new tropicals and shrubs, like mangaves, 'Gold Leopard' canna lilies and edible roses.

Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Würzburg researchers have investigated how animals react to this.

Dubbed the "corpse flower," the plant's scientific name is amorphophallus titanum but she's Putricia -- a portmanteau of ...

Two tropical lows sitting off WA's northern coast are expected to combine and intensify into a tropical cyclone over the weekend. The cyclone is unlikely to cross the WA coast, but could bring ...

Promoting mutually beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes that enhance nutrient acquisition by plants could improve crop production without increasing inorganic-fertilizer use.

Tropical storm Dikeledi has reached tropical cyclone stage. “Dikeledi intensified to the stage of minimal tropical cyclone this early morning while evolving on a west-south-west trajectory ...

Severe tropical storm Dikeledi is expected to strengthen into a tropical cyclone by Monday and is projected to move southeastwards along the Mozambique Channel. However, it is not expected to ...

Dikeledi was a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean late Friday Eastern Africa Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of ...

This will not cause the extensive damage we see with hard to severe freezes, but we expect some damage to tropical plants, particularly those that were not covered. The groups most affected likely ...

Dennis Covers will only do so much. Even though the foliage of your tropical plants was damaged, you greatly reduced the amount of damage that would have occurred without the cover. Continue to ...