If you kept goats in Crete or Cyprus, chances are your animals browsed on common native shrubs called cistus. These are to the Mediterranean what sagebrush is to the American West, and thus share some ...

Scientists have discovered that extracts of the medicinal plant Cistus incanus (Ci) prevent human immunodeficiency viruses from infecting cells. Active antiviral ingredients in the extracts inhibit ...

It is hard to imagine a plant more deserving of a place in the early summer garden than cistus, or the sun rose. As tulips lose their shape and the apple blossom goes over, cistus comes into flower ...

Cistus 'Grayswood Pink' is one of many rockroses that are well-suited to hot sun and low-water use. 'Grayswood Pink' grows into a pleasing mound of gray-green, evergreen foliage; it reaches about 3 ...

The germination response of different sized seeds from individuals of a Mediterranean fireprone shrub (Cistus ladanifer) was investigated in relation to pre-germination heating. A control (no heating) ...

"Ambergris, a waxy secretion formed in the intestines of sperm whales, is one of the most-sought-after substances in the world." This description came from a January Bloomberg Businessweek detailing ...

A beetle more usually at home on the warm Mediterranean coast has been found for the first time living in the UK. Known as the rockrose prickly leaf beetle, the insect is reliant on a handful of plant ...

“Ambergris, a waxy secretion formed in the intestines of sperm whales, is one of the most-sought-after substances in the world.” This description came from a January Bloomberg Businessweek detailing ...