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Date palm

Environment

鈥楴ear impossible鈥� plant-growing technique could revolutionise farming

For the first time, grafting has been made to work in monocots, a type of plant including oats, wheats and bananas 鈥� and it might improve disease tolerance among these important crops

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Life

The major science-fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong

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An Asian honeybee visits Gnetum luofense

Life

Thieving honeybees offer a glimpse of flowers鈥� evolutionary origins

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tobacco plant

Life

Insect-killing plant found by Australian highway is new to science

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Cherry tomato plants

Life

Tomatoes have a kind of nervous system that warns about attacks

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Thismia sitimeriamiae is extremely rare

Life

Strange new fairy lantern plant is already critically endangered

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flowers

Environment

Taller and prettier plants are more likely to be studied by botanists

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Robot plants made from origami mimic transpiration to track the sun

Technology

Robot with origami leaves can follow the sun like a real plant

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Life

Extinct date palms grown from 2000-year-old seeds found near Jerusalem

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orchids

Humans

Don’t miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths

This week, catch the last few days of an art show that gives mothers their due, explore a land of orchids and discover how loving maths makes us better people

Culture

Life

The odd history of the mulberry tree’s ties to silk, music and money

Culture

Life

Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants

Features

Environment

Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs

Culture

Earth

Harsh: Europe’s cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

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