Tropical plants in the genus Heliconia attract hummingbirds ... including plants valued both for their stunning looks and their interactions with nature. Researchers used data from herbaria ...

These botanical beauties not only catch the eye with their large, striking foliage but also add a nice touch of nature’s ...

Indeed, this is how they most commonly occur, although evidence of 4- and 5-level trophic cascades have been shown in nature ... those dominated by plants (e.g., tundra, deciduous and coniferous ...

Tropical forest plants regenerate either from sources from within the site (seed bank, resprouting from roots and stems, or remnant vegetation) or colonization by seeds dispersed from outside the ...

“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 ...

Only a few Heliconia plants have undergone conservation assessments, and just 21 species of the charismatic flora are currently listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

The genus Heliconia contains 187 species of tropical plants related to bananas ... listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.