plant kingdom
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"Most plants contain highly complex mixtures of phenolic compounds, and while flavonoids occur widely in the plant kingdom, the flavoalkaloids are very rare in nature," she explains.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
Convergence is widespread in the plant kingdom as well: carnivorous plants evolved at least a dozen times, roots evolved more than once, and even arborescence—plants taking the form of trees—evolved more than once.
From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023
But recent research from the plant kingdom shows that a mouth isn’t essential.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
This is a fairly common behavior in the plant kingdom, but almost every example is found in orchids, a type of flower that numbers over 28,000 species.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2023
Not only was attention thus gradually directed to the importance of the cell-contents, but observations were not lacking, even in the plant kingdom, tending to weaken the importance hitherto attached to the cell-wall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
