One of the rarest plants on earth has been planted in the rainforest biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall. A new and unique plant genus, or classification, has been given for the single species ...

A strange new breed of palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies a few months later has been discovered in Madagascar. Named Tahina spectabilis, the tree, which can grow up to 60 feet ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. That's the challenge facing a USC academic Dr Alison Shapcott, who has travelled to the remote ...

The seeds of the "suicide palm" (Tahina spectabilis), a newly discovered and extremely rare palm tree, have arrived in Britain for urgent study and conservation. The tree, whose nickname stems from ...

More than 600 new species, including the world's smallest primate and a colour-changing gecko, have been found in Madagascar in just over a decade. But many of the newly discovered plants and ...

They took photographs of the tree which John Dransfield of London’s Kew Gardens saw on the web. Dransfield, an authority on palm trees and the author of The Field Guide to the Palms of Madagascar, was ...