Visitors to an English garden attraction can enjoy a Day of the Triffids experience after a Brazilian plant has sprouted giant eight-foot-long leaves during lockdown. The massive Gunnera Manicata ...

The Gunnera plant, also known as giant rhubarb, is a menace to other garden plants and local ecosystems due to its rapid growth in damp habitats. The most common species of giant rhubarb in the UK are ...

With leaves that grow to two metres in diameter, the UK Government has now banned a popular garden plant that is especially common in the southwest of England, according to experts. The Gunnera plant, ...

Spring doesn’t work without rain. After 17 days without a drop – such magical mornings! – a first millimetre in the rain gauge offered hope to earthworms hiding deep in their burrows, to increasingly ...

Brazilian giant rhubarb is a hybrid of a species of special concern under the Invasive Alien Species Regulation - William Robinson/Alamy Stock Photo The sale of a popular Brazilian giant rhubarb will ...

20:56, Sun, May 5, 2024 Updated: 21:21, Sun, May 5, 2024 The UK Government is working on banning the giant rhubarb plant, also known as Gunnera, meaning it cannot be sold or cultivated, and those who ...

No, he's not the world's smallest man. Nor has Photoshop been involved. This gentleman is, in fact, taking shelter under a humongous leaf with an 11ft span - believed to be the largest in Britain.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A Colombian species of Gunnera, G. morae L. Wanntorp & Klackenberg, previously mistakenly identified as Gunnera manicata Linden ex André, is ...

The average leaf span of a Gunnera Manicata is about 2.5m (5.9ft) A plant in Dorset has grown "monster" leaves spanning 3.3m (11ft). The foliage of the Gunnera Manicata grown at Abbotsbury Gardens, ...