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 ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

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

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 ...

The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways. The bird is drawn to its red sepals, and the positioning of its pendulous flowers allows the bird, which can consume ...

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

The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...

Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help ...

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 ...