Many people enjoy gardening, roaming about in the wilderness, and foraging for plants and mushrooms. However, they often don’t know that some plants and mushrooms can be toxic. April is National ...

Otis Library will host a program on edible wild plants and fungi at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 15. The event, titled “Edible Wild Plants and Fungi of Autumn,” will take place in the library’s Community Room, ...

An invasive grass has been found in three state game areas in southern Michigan, and officials are asking the public to help locate stands of the plant before it becomes thoroughly established in ...

In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Last week, I shared a healing powerhouse you can find right in your backyard, the broadleaf plantain (Plantago major). This week, I have more green gold to share with you. It ...

Cancer remains one of the most serious health threats across the globe. In Nigeria, it grows more urgent each year. Cases of breast, cervical, liver, and prostate cancer continue to rise, and so do ...

You'll want to wear long sleeves and pants anytime you're working around this weed in your yard. Funny thing is, it doesn't really look that harmful. I didn't think anything of it when the little, ...

Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...

The arms of a gardener picking an orange off a tree - Pongnathee Kluaythong/Getty Images Fruit trees are a joyous addition to any garden. What's better than being able to pick fully ripened, organic ...