You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival—and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing than ...

Butterflies select flowers based on nectar, color, and scent for survival and reproduction. Their long proboscis allows access to deep nectar sources within specific blooms. Bright colors and sweet ...