Truffles, like mushrooms, are a kind of fungus. But unlike mushrooms, truffles grow underground. That makes them hard to find. Truffles are so tasty that people often spend many hours hunting for...
A vegetable garden
Nothing tastes quite so good as food you have grown yourself. To grow your own vegetables you will need a small bit of flat ground that gets plenty of sunshine. It's easier to grow tomatoes from...
A tall plant with tasty seeds
Sunflowers are big plants with thick, hairy stems and big, heart-shaped leaves. Sunflower blossoms are often as big as dinner plates, and sunflowers sometimes grow twice as tall as a tall man. ...
Plants that climb
If a green plant doesn't get enough sunlight, it will die. The best way for a plant to get lots of sunlight is to grow tall. But if a plant with a very thin stem grows too tall, it will just topple...
Plants that live in trees
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 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,...
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 northern forest community
Most trees in the northern \< forest are conifers---trees that have cones. > Plants of the northern forest community > bunchberry Life in the northern forest Evergreen trees grow close...
Where the plants change their clothes
Do the trees where you live change their clothes during the year? Do they wear light green buds in the springtime, dark green leaves in the summer, and beautiful reds, golds, and purples in the fall?...
