Before it becomes the familiar vegetable on dinner plates, okra starts its life as a flower. Zack Snipes, the area ...

When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.

Researchers found that the flowers of this plant species release a scent that is almost identical to the odour of ants under ...

Vincetoxicum nakaianum tricks flies into pollinating it by imitating the smell of ants attacked by spiders. Ko Mochizuki ...

Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...

If your lime tree isn't producing as much fruit as you would like, it's probably not getting adequate pollination, but there is a way you can fix this.

The titan arum uses inflorescence heating during its bloom. This rare phenomenon is essential for pollination. The plant ...

The plant native to Japan mimics the smell of ants attacked by spiders to attract the flies who pollinate the flowers.

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a dogbane species native to Japan ...

The Amazon Spheres are displaying a corpse flower that is in bloom, which smells exactly like the name-- a decaying corpse.

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by ...

Gilberts Nursery, Sherfield English, has welcomed flower enthusiasts back to their popular dahlia field. Open from mid-August until the first frosts in October, the field is a peaceful space for ...