Senior couple crouches down to look at shrubs in garden nursery - Caftor/Shutterstock It's an awkward situation for gardeners — admiring a beautiful plant in our yards when someone tells us it's an ...

Pretty to look at but beware of the poisonous nature of these two tropical beauties. Castor beans grow 6 to 10 feet tall and produce large star shaped leaves up to 2 ½ feet across. The spiny red ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently connected with Marc S. Frank, an Extension Botanist and Assistant Collection Manager at the University of Florida's Herbarium at the Florida Museum of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A recent column focused on the trending loss of biodiversity and the growing concerns at the global, national, and state levels about this process. In a ...

Carmencita castor bean is attractive due to red foliage, stems, flowers and fruit, but it’s a plant to avoid. All parts of castor bean (Ricinus communis) and its varieties are extremely toxic. In ...