How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Tiny shards of plastic, drifting in the air, had nestled inside the leaves themselves. The new study published in ...

Leaves make food for the plant, in the form of glucose ... We don’t want her to get sunburnt now do we? Animals need to eat food to get their energy, but plants can make their own in a process ...

Remove and discard these leaves before cooking or eating the stalks. While oxalic acid is found in many plants, rhubarb leaves have an especially high concentration, making them particularly harmful.

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, leading to a widespread presence of plastic polymers in vegetation.