At a recent used book sale I purchased a copy of a lovely book called "One Hundred Flowers," by Harold Feinstein (Bullfinch Press, 2000). This large-format book includes not only 100 amazing, huge ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

In nature, the quest to survive and spread is essential — and that’s certainly true for flowers. We might see them as vibrant harbingers of spring or precursors to juicy tomatoes, but from the ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

Oscillating colours: a magnified image showing the alternating orange and pink colours of the flower petals. (Courtesy: H Tsukaya/CC-BY) An extremely rare case of a flower that oscillates in colour ...

Pollination is a key process in the life cycle of flowering plants (angiosperms). It typically involves a vector responsible for the transport which can be either biotic (animals) or abiotic: usually ...