Finally understanding botanical plant names
There's no getting around botanical plant names: the scientific names for plants were developed by the botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778). Because he wanted to ensure a uniform classification of ...
C3, C4 and CAM plants explained
Photosynthesis is not the same in all plants, but depends on the plant species. In order to optimally adapt to site and climatic conditions, special forms of CO2 fixation have also been developed ...
Mass exchange of indoor plants
By opening and closing stomata on the underside of leaves, plants exchange substances with their environment: water vapour, carbon dioxide and oxygen. Your houseplants are also in a lively exchan...
Understanding indoor plants: photosynthesis simply explained
Plants and organisms that can use light energy to produce storable chemical energy through photosynthesis include seed plants, ferns, mosses, algae, cyanobacteria, and some other groups of bacteri...
5 reasons why plant species are becoming extinct
Some plant species just go extinct without us noticing. We don't notice it because these plants are already very rare and there are only a few of them. We often lack the eye to recognize what disti...
Plant tissues: Types & formation simply explained
When cells with the same structure and function come together, tissue is formed. All cells of a plant come from a stem cell, which then differentiates and can take on a different form according to...
Plant hormones: what are they and what are their functions?
The hormones in plants are also called phytohormones. They are plant-specific chemical compounds that control important processes within the plant. Phytohormones are messenger substances that trans...