Plant Biology

The Agave pelona only flowers once and takes decades to get there. One of the plants housed at the Missouri Botanical Gardens bloomed this week.

Nearly half of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction. New research from the Missouri Botanical Garden aims to better predict which species can be grown outdoors in St. Louis.

Missouri Botanical Garden garden researchers delve into the center's conservation efforts in Madagascar. Ecologist Adam Smith studied the island's deforestation and found that all of Madagascar's rainforests could disappear by 2080. Botanist Jeannie Raharimampionona explains how MoBot's protected sites in Madagascar aim to combat this prediction.

Kevin Cox Jr., 28, asked a lot of questions as a child. He wanted to know how and why things came to be. The plant biologist, a Florissant native, figured…