Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance leaves travel as they fall from their tree. In their paper published in the ...

Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

You can probably recall many different leaf shapes from many different places. But did you know that the places helped create the shapes? “Every leaf has a story, and there’s so many different ...

"Data correlating shape and settling across a broad range of natural, mutated, and artificial leaves support the ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing ...

By comparing it with its close relative, the hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta), which has leaves formed of individual leaflets rather than the simple spoon-shaped leaves of Arabidopsis, the ...

A decade ago, a paper came out saying that B. trifoliolata can change its lobed or rounded leaf shape to mimic the leaf shape of other plants. Those authors speculated it was due to chemicals or ...