The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

Commonly referred to as the Swiss Cheese plant, monstera is known for large, heart-shaped, glossy green leaves with perforations and holes.

Although the idea of a planting a tropical fruit tree seems like a good way to transform your backyard into an oasis, you may ...

Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, which are critical to tropical ecosystems Ella Jeffries Staff ...

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction. A new analysis from ...

“That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Working alongside Hawaii’s Plant Extinction Prevention Program ...

The “perfect” tropical beach hardly needs to be described ... instead framing sightlines to the sea with some of the 10 or so native plants that Playa Viva uses as a foundation for its ...

Heliconia bella in Panama. This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study.