These are links from our Scoop It page between September 21st and January 21st: Wrong species of Maple leaf on new Canadian bank notes The Bank of Canada blundered by using a Norwegian maple leaf instead of the country's native variety on its new banknotes, plant experts have claimed. Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre botanist [...]

The protocarnivorous plant Paepalanthus bromelioides (Eriocaulaceae) has a rosette-like structure commonly inhabited by predators such as spiders, whilst their roots are wrapped by a cylindrical termite mound that grows beneath the rosette. Nishi et al. use laboratory and field studies in Brazil to examine nutrient relationships between these various mutulistic partners and find that the natural [...]