Beronda L. Montgomery

Without spices, our meals would have less color and flavor. Helaine Weide/Moment via Getty Images

How do spices get their flavor?

Humans have figured out how to season their food with virtually every part of plants.
_ Allium schoenoprasum _, lebih dikenal dengan kucai. Andreas Rockstein/Flickr

Mengapa tumbuhan tumbuh lurus ke atas?

Tumbuhan membutuhkan cahaya untuk makan, sehingga mereka tumbuh dengan cara yang membantu mereka mengumpulkan sebanyak mungkin cahaya. Terkadang lurus ke atas, tetapi tidak selalu begitu.
Allium schoenoprasum, better known as chives. Andreas Rockstein/Flickr

Why do plants grow straight?

Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
Longleaf pines support one another through mycorrhizae – mutually beneficial relationships between certain fungi and the trees’ roots. Justin Meissen/Flickr

Plants thrive in a complex world by communicating, sharing resources and transforming their environments

We may think of plants as passive life forms, but they can cooperate, share resources, send one another warnings, and distance themselves from their communities when survival depends on it.

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