IN my article on “Different Modes of Self-fertilisation where Visits of Insects are wanting” (NATURE, vol. x. p. 129), I gave a short account of the number of sepals, petals, and anthers in a hundred ...

“Buttercups”—the name conjures up an image of lots of bright yellow flowers, which we enjoyed recently in Cowee Meadows and which brighten the roadsides. But, for some, the name is a reminder of a ...

Flowers usually have four distinct parts: petals, sepals, stamens and pistils. The petals are usually colorful and attract pollinators. The sepals are green and protect the flower bud. The stamens are ...

Researchers have described a new legume tree from flowers embedded in several lumps of amber recovered from deep within an amber mine in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. Oregon State ...

Tulips are among the loveliest of our spring-blooming flowers. The flowers come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and colours to suit all tastes. Taste is, of course, a very personal matter. Some ...

I frequently visit the Vail Pass rest area to see which flowers are in bloom and who is pollinating them. In early summer, a pinkish red or rose stand of blooms caught my eye — this was my first ...

3D model of the ancestral flower reconstructed by the new study, showing multiple whorls of petal-like organs, in sets of threes. All living flowers ultimately derive from a single ancestor that lived ...

A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. However, not everyone agrees that the fossil ...