Meet King’s Lomatia — The Plant That Has Been Cloning Itself For At Least 43,600 Years

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...
IEEE

Automatic Identification of Medicinal Plants with Transfer Learning

Abstract: Medicinal plants are widely recognized for their medicinal properties, so accurate identification is very important for scientists, pharmacists and people. This work presents a transfer ...
News Tribune

ASK A MASTER GARDENER: Houseplants with a heart for Valentine’s Day

The origin of the classic, symmetrical heart shape remains a mystery. Various theories exist including its similarity in shape to the seeds of silphium, a plant that was considered to be an ...

Plant Doctor: Area neighborhoods in the pink courtesy of blooming tabebuia trees

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida about tabebuia trees. lavender, parsley, tomatoes, azaleas and lawn care ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

This week in PC games: is Highguard a nothingburger? Plus, Winnie the Cthulhooh, Code Vein 2 and a plant-based RTS

Calyx, The Spirit Lift, Ghost Keeper, Earth Must Die, Echoes Of Elysium and Highguard are a few of this week's new PC ...

Why January Is The Perfect Time To Plant Peas In Your Garden

Peas are an excellent vegetable crop to add to your garden in January. Not only can they provide you with some tasty produce, ...
IEEE

Herbguard: An Ensemble Deep Learning Framework With Efficientnet and Vision Transformers for Fine-Grained Classification of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants

Abstract: Classifying whether a plant is herbal or poisonous is a significant challenge for trekkers, hikers, and nature enthusiasts, particularly in remote areas where several unfamiliar plant ...