Plants of the garden pea Pisum sativum an annual Papilionaceae species which have a mutation in the COCHLEATA (COCH) gene bear compound stipules of leaf morphology and secondary inflorescences in ...

Harare — Mid-November, in Zimbabwe, is regarded as the beginning of the country's main rainy season. It also marks the beginning of the short but spectacular period when the flamboyants are in flower.

“An import from tropical America, the rain tree has low wood density and the roots don’t run deep,” he explains. He brands a few other common trees as unreliable in a cyclone, notably Delonix regia ...