but they have the benefit of moving pollen between male and female flowers to trigger the flower’s reproductive cycle. In the wild, pollination requires careful timing. Story continues below this ad ...

It is time for Putricia’s pollination – and it ... has revealed a ring of hundreds of black stamen-like structures. These are Putricia’s female flowers. Another ring of male flowers is ...

Life can get a bit lonely for the orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus. It grows in dark and secluded places where it’s easy to miss and rarely visited by pollinators, but a 130-year mystery has ...

Plant immunity is the inherent or induced capacity of plants to withstand or ward off biological attack by pathogens. Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

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

Putricia has been placed behind a velvet rope in Sydney's botanic gardens An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the ...

An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the internet in the process, with thousands already tuned in to a livestream to ...

The team’s next goal is to increase the robot’s flight duration by tenfold and enhance its precision to the point where it can land on and take off from flowers for selective pollination. A more ...

Samaha, S.M. While the Virgin Mary probably possessed no gold to smooth her life in the household of the Holy Family, she wears a crown of gold that circles the earth. Flower gardens around the world ...

The robot reaches 35 cm/s, performs flips, and traces paths like “M-I-T,” highlighting control and endurance advances.

The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables ... and take off from the center of a flower. In the long run, the researchers ...