Amaranth comes from a word that means "unfading" in Greek. The flowers of this plant are a vivid crimson all summer long, making it a striking sight. However, the flowers aren't amaranth's big ...

The terminal seed heads on female Palmer amaranth plants can grow up to 3 feet long and will feel prickly. The petioles will be as long or longer than the leaf blades themselves. The leaves tend ...

Beautiful amaranth is a common enough sight in home gardens and along the borders of parks. It also works well as a bouquet ...

Amaranth Tikkis: Who would have thought that the humble Amaranth could be transformed into something so delicious yet healthy? A gluten free tikki made with amaranth seeds and stir fried vegetables ...

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Here’s a simple recipe using whole amaranth seeds: Spread the amaranth seeds out in a single layer on a baking sheet. Roast ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

The risk is that the party has not learned lessons from its disastrous European election performance Whoever’s in Downing Street, there are only two viable options. It’s time for Labour to choose. And ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a ...

Anita Shapolsky announced the death of Amaranth Roslyn Ehrenhalt, vibrant multimedia artist and painter belonging to the second generation of the New York Abstract School that burst to prominence in ...