New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that ...

Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

We investigated the effects of plant density on cleistogamous (CL) and chasmogamous (CH) flowering phenology and seed production in a natural Impatiens capensis population, by censusing individually ...

Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through plant-pollinator mismatch but through frost damage, a new study shows. Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

Flowering strips -- plants used to augment bee foraging habitats -- can help increase bee reproduction but may also increase pathogen infection rates. Flowering strips -- pollinator-friendly rows of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Temperate grasses of the subfamily Festucioideae can be grouped into two main categories according to their environmental control of flowering ...