Tag Archive for 'Saxifraga'

Morphology of Saxifraga candelabrum. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-75288-y.

Scientists Add Unlikely New Member to World’s Carnivorous Plants

Aug 5, 2026 by Natali Anderson

More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first wondered whether certain sticky-leaved Saxifraga plants might be secretly carnivorous, Kunming Institute...

Saxifraga sempervivum, a species of alpine plant in Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, ‘produces pure vaterite.’ Image credit: Paul Aston.

Biologists Find Rare and Unstable Mineral Vaterite in Alpine Plants

Mar 6, 2018 by News Staff

A team of biologists from the University of Cambridge, UK, has found that a very rare and unstable mineral called vaterite is a dominant component of the...