Karen BotesWikimedia Commons Growing vegetables on living walls can improve food production in urban centers, purify the air, ...

In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and ...

Enter the texture-rich houseplant: plant walls. This living art introduces depth and movement with vines and leaves in ...

Plants for north-facing walls can transform a challenging feature into a vertical highlight. It’s surprising just how many ...

A plant cell wall is arranged in layers and contains cellulose microfibrils, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin, and soluble protein. These components are organized into three major layers: the primary ...

The crumbling walls of Bristol’s 215-year-old artificial river embankments are to be stripped of all the years of grass, plants, bushes and vegetation, so council experts can spot any more ...

This is a guide to the plants most commonly found growing on walls in UK towns and cities. The guide covers 38 species of flowering plants, ferns and mosses, includes well-known plants such as ...

Using this method, the research team explored the banding patterns that increase the stability of plant cell walls—much like the corrugated patterns in cardboard—and how they are created.