Gold leaf doesn’t grow on trees, but it can now harvest power from the Sun. A team of US chemical engineers has extracted photosynthetic molecules from plants and attached them to thin sheets of ...

Indoor plants: Neon pothos (Epipremnum ‘Neon’), Troy’s Gold plectranthus (Plectranthus ciliatus ‘Troy’s Gold’), Lemon Lime heartleaf philodendron (Philodendron hederacum ‘Lemon Lime’) ...

New and younger leaves are dark green and truly have gold spots. As the leaves mature, the spots fade to pale yellow. The glossy, elliptical leaves grow to 3 inches long and 1½ inches wide.

Plant leaves come in a range of summer colors and patterns. ... That’s why your very expensive, new gold-leafed plant can burn to a crisp in full sun.

Bonine says that for maximum effect, black plants require contrast in the garden. "Gold-leaf plants work really well - or a backdrop like a light stone wall. They're especially good in containers ...

The actual amount of gold in each leaf is negligible: Lintern has described the particles as so small that the leaves from 500 trees over a deposit would only be enough to make a wedding ring. But ...

Some plants also start making other pigments, called anthocyanins, which they make during the fall to protect their leaves during that process, while they're recovering nutrients — we call this ...

No need to drive hours to "leaf-peep" when you can plant your own collection of brilliant fall-foliage plants at home. Here's a look at 18 of the best for central Pennsylvania.