The huge variety of leaves in the plant kingdom has long been ... to show is over perhaps as much as half the world the overall limits to leaf size are much more set by the risk of freezing ...

Temperature, rainfall and solar radiation are the key drivers of leaf size around the world; this explains both the giant leaves of tropical plants and the tiny ones of desert dwellers. Ian Wright ...

Biologists have discovered fundamental rules for leaf design that underlie the ability of plants to make leaves that vary enormously in size ... from around the world, all grown on the UCLA ...

Bigger stems and leaves would therefore be needed support the floral display, but this needs to be tested, he adds. Size might not be the only such gambit adopted by plants and animals to ...