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

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

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes pomegranate trees. But, what exactly does this mean? And what do you need to ...

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...