COLOMBIA — When Ruben Dario Carianil began cultivating the unusual, pointy Inirida flower in the Colombian Amazon 10 years ago, his relatives made fun of him for growing “weeds.” Today, the ...

Today, the 63-year-old Carianil, of the Curripako tribe, grows tons of the curious blooms on a plot outside Inirida the jungle city of 30,000 people from which the flower took its name. Carianil ...

Inírida (Colombia) (AFP) – When Ruben Dario Carianil began cultivating the unusual, pointy Inirida flower in the Colombian Amazon ten years ago, his relatives made fun of him for growing "weeds." ...

Colombia's Inirida flower has been chosen as the emblem of a UN biodiversity conference to be held in Cali from October 21 to November 1 - Copyright AFP Luis ACOSTA ...

Welsh nationalists have reacted with fury after the daffodil, the country's national flower, was snubbed in the new official emblem of the new United Kingdom Supreme Court. All the other nations in ...

THE daffodil may be forever associated with Wales, but what of the humble limestone woundwort? And how many Welsh botanists, no matter how patriotic, proudly wear a little whorled caraway in ...