A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

A team led by Prof Susann Wicke from the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Münster has shown that certain parasitic plants activate their haustoria independently of the ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - There are many ways to welcome the New Year; gather with families and friends for a joyful exit of the year, or reflect on the journey taken in the past year. Either way, New ...

State and federal officials are gearing up to stop the advance of a parasitic fly that is less than 70 miles from the United ...

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

Missouri animal health experts warn of a potential reintroduction of a flesh-eating fly in the state within a year or two.