It is a testament to the gardening-crazed culture of the Bay Area that when you say the word "ginger," people are as likely to think of the plant as the spice. With ginger's often striking tropical ...

Plants frequently display fruit characteristics that support multiple seed-dispersal syndromes. These ambiguous characteristics may reflect the fact that seed dispersal is usually a complex process ...

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