One of the showiest flowers at this time of year is the verbascum, also known as mullein. You can’t have missed the ruffians of the clan, Verbascum thapsus, with 6-foot-tall candelabras of yellow that ...

(1) Two sequential cohorts of mullein (Verbascum thapsus) were studied in each of six North Carolina sites in order to assess the phenotypic and genetic responses of the populations to successional ...

John Manley has spent the vast bulk of his 25 year-plus journalistic career with The Irish News. He has been the paper's Political Correspondent since 2012, having previously worked as a Business ...

Roman legionnaires used mullein as a torch. They dipped the tall, spear-shaped flower stalks in tallow to light their billets. The thick down of Torch Weed is still used to make candle wicks in parts ...

I HAVE read with great interest the letters from Prof. Salisbury and Dr. J. Phillips which have appeared in NATURE dealing with mortality in plants at different stages of their life histories. The ...