The precious little green thing on which the Wall-E plot turns consists of just a few leaves clasping a viney stem. To get a botanist’s perspective on the plant as plot-driver, I took Gerry ...

Potentially serious rashes may result from contact with any part of the plant, and that includes the vines in the winter (when no leaves are showing). Now, it turns out that not everybody will end ...

He scans the plants growing below ... But it didn't evolve to be admired. Michael Viney'sReflections on Another Life, a selection of columns from the past four decades, is available from ...