Nature

The pomegranate is one of the world’s oldest cultivated plants. The plump, red pulp of the polygonal seed coat is surrounded by a thin skin; inside this is the actual seed. Family The pom...

When the small medicinal plant arnica blooms, the locals return to their villages in the remote Apuseni Mountains in the Romanian Carpathians. The most important plant in this region blooms with...

Sea buckthorn is one of the few plants to contain precious oil both in its fruit pulp and seeds. It stores water-soluble vitamins as well as fat-soluble vitamins and their precursors. In August,...

Biodiversity is often equated with having a variety of species. It refers to the variety of plant and animal species in terms of genetic diversity within a species; species diversity (different ...