The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant ...

The 2009 sci-fi movie Avatar even comes with its own guide to the exotic flora of the moon Pandora, where plants communicate with each other via “signal transduction from root to root.” The panoply of ...

Nature Screen at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will present “Plants Behaving Badly,” a pair of PBS NATURE documentaries that include “Carnivorous Plants” and “Orchids” on ...