The plant can also sprout anew from pieces of root left in the soil or water.

The plant has long leaves, surrounding spikes where small flowers form.

The lesser ground cover, mostly plants with claw-tipped leaves the size of a man's hand, was dead and gray.

The plants growing across these deltas would leave behind coal deposits.

This relationship apparently ends when the plant develops enough roots and leaves to make all its own food.

When the prints begin to fade, we know they've been stressed, like plants left too long without water.

They returned four months later, leaving some areas still rebellious and with news that there were almost no rubber plants left.

Or particular favorite plants are potted up, cut back, left outdoors and brought inside around mid-September.

Local plants left behind leaves that would later fossilize.

No other plant in the country had left radioactive debris floating around for years, essentially "writing off" a room, he said.