‘Dr. Spawn’ alter ego: Ragweed
Ah, the sweet smell of ragweed … bane of every outdoor allergy sufferer’s existence. Come late summer and…
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‘Stingstro’ alter ego: The Stinging Tree
Australia is home to some of the world’s most deadly animals including the box jellyfish, the funnel-web spider,…
‘Toxic’ alter ego: Sago Palm
Pet owners and parents beware. The sago palm wants you to think it’s just a pretty addition to…
‘Inferno’ alter ego: Cogongrass
Wanted dead, never alive. Having taken up root on every continent except Antarctica, cogongrass is considered one of…
‘Spreader’ alter ego: Killer Algae
The most threatening of comic book villains can escape captivity, be it a prison or a mental asylum,…
‘Smoke’ alter ego: Tobacco
Magneto, The Joker, Lex Luthor. Every comic series has its top villain, and the world of evil plants…
Ten Super Plants Fighting the Environmental Injustice League
Who ya gonna call when your tank's on 'E,' the topsoil's salty or there's too much TNT? The 10 plants Miller-McCune.com believes can save the world, that's who.
‘The Spore’ alter ego: Gliocladium roseum
OK, so technically it’s not a plant (it’s a reddish fungus), but under limited oxygen conditions Gliocladium roseum…
‘The Tidy Team’ alter ego: Tobacco, Edenfern, Thale Cress
Phytoremediation. Intimidating word, important biological process. Put simply, phytoremediation is using plants to clean up contaminants in polluted…
‘Hydro’ alter ego: Duckweed
Part wastewater purifier, part protein shake, an aquatic plant named “duckweed” could make a splash as another big…