Chayote (Sechium edule), also known as mirliton, chocho, and vegetable pear, is a type of fruit belonging to the Cucurbitaceae plant family, which also includes pumpkins, melons, and cucumbers. It has ...

Chayote are sold in West Indian shops in the UK. Avoid soft or wrinkled fruit. Treat chayote as a vegetable similar to a courgette. They have a watery texture and delicate flavour, but are often ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

by the chayote plant,” to ensure positive coverage of the governor or mayor’s latest public pronouncements. In other countries this practice was known as “brown envelope” journalism for ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

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Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...