Standing before a field carpeted with flowers is a beloved, awe-inspiring tradition around the world. There are plenty of places to catch a riot of spring and summer colors-without destroying ...

It was later marketed as The Christmas Flower, and its popularity spread around the world. This story was published in December 2023. Quiz: How much do you know about Christmas in books?

Dandelions are among the most widespread wildflowers in the world. They withstand harsh, unforgiving climates on every ...

Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world.

Mistletoe, a group of plants in the order Santalales, are found around the world. Only some species of mistletoe are parasitic. The traditional parasitic mistletoe we think of is Viscum album. Most ...

The world’s largest global auction for flowers ... In 2015, the global trade in flowers was worth around €15bn (£10.6bn), with stems shuttled between continents with breath-taking speed.

Montsechia’s origins in freshwater lakes challenge the idea that flowers evolved on land before ... In the surprisingly messy world of plant taxonomy, Montsechia has been classified as a conifer ...

After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden ... plant-eating dinosaurs had been around for a million centuries, all the while living on a diet of ferns, conifers, and other ...

It’s April and tulips are blooming everywhere! Looking at colourful tulip fields is a breathtaking sight. These pretty yet ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized.