IN connection with Prof. Groom's article on the pollination of exotic flowers (November 10, 1904, p. 26) the following notes may be of interest. The inflorescence of Marcgravia Umbellata is ...

Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...

Current models predict that selfing should be advantageous for plants experiencing unreliable pollination (selfing increases reproductive assurance and ... from Vancouver Island that differ in flower ...

Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

Pollinators are vital to agricultural productivity and maintaining natural ecosystems. Their absence can have devastating consequences.

Researchers are developing robots that promise to automate a process that has always relied on human workers—and bees.

Every summer and fall in parts of Ethiopia, the red hot poker blooms, setting the high grasslands ablaze with its clusters of tubular flowers. "It's really like fire torches in the landscape ...

“The cacao pollination system is incredibly delicate,” said López-Uribe. “The flowers are very small and the pollen is viable for very few hours during the day. Changes of even a couple of ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

I ran to the Botanic Gardens late last night – and accidentally became involved with the stinky, intimate art of Putricia’s pollination.