Each week Mansion Global tackles an interior design topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week we look at how to incorporate tropical ...

A 17-year experiment in Panama revealed that the process of leaves falling and decomposing on the ground provides nutrients to the soil that help promote tree growth in otherwise infertile tropical ...

Like people, leaves have their limits when it comes to heat. Scientists first reported in 1864 that the leaves of some plants could survive up to 50° Celsius, only to perish beyond that threshold.

The classic palm print has been used in design for decades, but perhaps the most notable instance was when Hollywood decorator Don Loper dressed the walls of the Fountain Coffee Room at the Beverly ...

Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian found an unconventional method to understand how rainforests will survive with climate change—making tea with living leaves at the top of ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 88, No. 4 (Apr., 2001), pp. 634-645 (12 pages) This study assessed the levels of damage by leaf pathogens and their variability in terms of host species, space (four ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...