Fast-growing flowering vines add character and romance to gardens, and can hide unwelcome features. Here's our favourite ...

I ’ve grown annuals in all sorts of places in my time as a professional gardener. From tiny, south-facing balconies crammed ...

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Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effe ...

If you prefer sleek, structural flowers over fluffy-petalled blooms, consider planting a late crop of morning glory. This low-maintenance plant features elegant, trumpet-shaped flowers in the ...

Hidden in the seed coat of a common plant, an elusive fungus has finally been found. It may lead to better treatments for depression, PTSD, addiction, and more. Inside morning glory seed coats.

Plant tissues were magnified up to 200 times to search for visible signs of mycelium. ... Because Clavicipitaceae live in seeds, DNA from was also extracted from morning glory seed coats.

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been discovered on the morning glory vine after decades of searching. Almost a ...

A West Virginia University student has identified an elusive fungus that contains psychedelic chemicals similar to LSD.

More information: Corinne M. Hazel et al, A new species of Periglandula symbiotic with the morning glory Ipomoea tricolor, Mycologia (2025). DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2025.2483634 Journal information ...