The global clean beauty movement has driven growing demand for evidence-based, plant-derived active ingredients for cosmetic formulations. Nymphaea spp., with well-documented ornamental and ...

Two thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians were sipping mugs of a potion that caused them to enter an altered state of consciousness, in hopes of divine connection and healing. Archeologists made the ...

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. A certain (rather beautiful) flower has been subtly making its way into the Malaysian market, ...

Here are five things to work on in the garden this week. Flowers: Cape jewels (Nemesia caerulea) are a perennial that would like to bloom throughout the year but are held back by hot summer weather.

Plants communicate with the environment through specialized epidermal structures, which are involved in the maintenance of their essential physiological and biochemical processes (Carpenter 2006) and ...