Anyone seeing a white jacaranda (Jacaranda puberula), also known as caroba, blooming in the sandbank forest might assume that the leafy tree could not survive in such sandy soil. They would be right.

You already have a beautiful Swiss cheese plant, pothos, and aloe vera plant in your home. But now you want to try a new and more exotic houseplant. Bromeliads have become more and more popular in the ...

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Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...