Corn is one of the world's three great staple crops, yet Chinese kitchens rarely serve it as a main grain. A Zhihu answer explains how a plant from the grass family became the backbone of modern food, fuel and livestock.
More than 3,000 mu of smokebush in Shimenfang, a scenic area in Linqu County, Shandong, has reached peak autumn colour, with oranges, vermilions and deep reds layered across the hillsides. The full display is expected to last about two weeks.
A Cambridge-led paper in Nature Plants counts more than 3,500 living plant collections worldwide holding at least 105,634 species. Much of the data behind these gardens remains undigitized, limiting what science can learn from them.
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