Flora

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

The highest point in Tennessee is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."