Do you know there are some kinds of plants that never grow in the ground? They grow high up in trees in tropical forests. There's a good reason for this. In a forest where trees grow tall and close...
Plants that trap insects
In many wet and swampy places there are plants that trap insects! But plants don't "eat." If plants don't "eat," then why do they catch insects? All plants need a salt called a nitrate. It helps...
Plants that can swim!
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas is a tiny plant that swims like an animal! > Sometimes, 16 of these tiny plants form a jellylike wheel and live in > it together. If you peeked at a drop of pond...
The baker’s plant
> yeast plants > > Yeast plants are growing in the dough this baker is mixing. The small > photo shows how growing yeast cells look under a microscope. If it weren't for a plant called yeast, we...
Plants that grow on bread and cheese
> Some molds make the cheese they grow in taste better. When a piece of bread gets old, it may become covered with pale, powdery spots. Each spot is a sort of "forest" of tiny, tiny plants called...
Strange and Surprising Plants
If you think that all plants are green, have leaves, and grow in the ground, you're in for a surprise. Some plants are white, orange, or even purple, instead of green. Some plants grow on bread,...
Plants of mountainside communities
Why tree-line trees are short Every winter, snow covers the trees that grow near the tree line on mountains. The snow is about as deep one winter as the next. When a tree is young, snow covers it...
Plant communities on mountains
> mountainside communities Forest, grassland, tundra, and even desert communities may all be found on a mountainside. A mountain is like a little world. It has many kinds of plant communities,...
Plants of the tundra community
tundra community The tundra is a great frozen plain, far in the north. Even during these warmer, sunny days, a fierce, terrible wind blows over the tundra. So only tough, sturdy plants that grow...
Plants of the frozen north
Far in the north, on the edge of the great sea that reaches to the North Pole, there is a great, flat plain called the tundra....