Flowers are mainly made up of four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and the pistil. Every part has it's unique and different ...

IN my article on “Different Modes of Self-fertilisation where Visits of Insects are wanting” (NATURE, vol. x. p. 129), I gave a short account of the number of sepals, petals, and anthers in a hundred ...

Seventeen morphological characters are described and plotted on a phylogeny of the eudicots. The distribution of perianth characters demonstrates that the currently held view that petals originated ...

“Buttercups”—the name conjures up an image of lots of bright yellow flowers, which we enjoyed recently in Cowee Meadows and which brighten the roadsides. But, for some, the name is a reminder of a ...

Researchers have described a new legume tree from flowers embedded in several lumps of amber recovered from deep within an amber mine in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. Oregon State ...

A tiny flower pressed between layers of sandstone for more than 160 million years could be the oldest flower fossil ever found, a new study reports. However, not everyone agrees that the fossil ...

Tulips are among the loveliest of our spring-blooming flowers. The flowers come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and colours to suit all tastes. Taste is, of course, a very personal matter. Some ...