A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...

University of Alberta scientists say they have determined, in part, how patterns on leaves are formed. "For years people have been trying to understand this beautiful formation," said Enrico Scarpella ...

Pick up a leaf and it is hard not to notice the pattern made by the veins. For years, biologists, mathematicians and even poets and philosophers have tried to decipher the rules and regulations behind ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...