In Chinese folklore, ginseng is said to run away, sometimes even taking the form of tiny childlike spirits. Wang Defu, honorary president of the Fusong Ginseng Culture Research Association in Baishan, ...

Pruning plants in the fall doesn’t just keep your garden looking neat. It also wards off disease and pests while giving perennials a head start on healthy growth for the spring. Some plants, like ...

A trusted and essential resource for more than four decades, Laboratory Guide for Identification of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria returns in a fully updated fourth edition. This guide remains the most ...

Welcome to ID That Tree! In this episode, Purdue Extension Forester Lenny Farlee introduces us to a widespread and often overlooked native plant, the wild grape vine. Found across Indiana, this vine ...

Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Despite the many threats to wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) growing on the steep forested slopes of West Virginia, the people who know ...

How can closely related plant species occur on two continents, thousands of miles apart? This distribution pattern is known as disjunction, and it’s a particular area of interest for Dr. Jun Wen, an ...

Monarda, Monarda fistulosa, often called wild bergamot or bee balm, is a native North American plant that is now found in gardens all over the world. Here in our area, groups of the plants can be seen ...

A stolen Ford Fusion, illegally harvested ginseng root and three raccoons lie at the heart of an investigation that’s led to a statewide search for Larry W. Tussey Jr. The 48-year-old Spencer man is ...

As temperatures rise, many people may start to spend more time outdoors. Experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham say it is important to be able to identify, avoid and treat reactions from ...

“In this photo, I’m standing in Kalbe Ubaya Hanbang-Bio Laboratory, the first lab in Indonesia devoted to culturing the root of the ginseng plant (Panax ginseng), at the University of Surabaya in East ...

Korean skincare is gaining more and more traction nowadays among people in Western countries. This trend is understandable because when we look at pictures of the average Korean adult, we can’t help ...