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 ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas Just about any other flower would smell sweeter, but that hasn t stopped East Texas plant lovers from admiring the rare blooms of one variety. Braving an odor likened to rotting ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Next Mother's Day, say it with an evolved model of logistical efficiency — a flower. A new discovery about how nature's icons of romance manage the distribution ...

Flowers like dianthus, freesia, lilies, jasmine and roses gives us the sweet aromatic perfumes that loft through the air when they are in bloom. The flower is saying to the world, I am ready to ...

In some deserts of the world, a series of heavy rains can trigger many species of plant to flower at the same time. Beneath Death Valley lies a massive seed bank of desert wildflowers and when heavy ...

Moths have long been seen as the annoying creatures that leave holes in your clothes. But new research suggests that those pesky insects have been badly misjudged. A new study, published this week in ...

Pollination could be a chaotic disaster. With hundreds of pollen grains growing long tubes to ovules to deliver their sperm to female gametes, how can a flower ensure that exactly two fertile sperm ...