If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" ...

Although we've already heard about plants that mimic the smell of rotten meat or feces in order to attract pollen-spreading scavengers, botanists have now discovered that a certain plant really ...

Sometime in the next week or so the UC Santa Barbara greenhouse will start smelling like a rotting corpse. But the campus police needn't worry; it's only the huge perennial herb Amorphophallus titanum ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Exactly two years after he last bloomed, the IU biology department’s six foot, seven inch corpse flower — “Wally” to his friends — opened up again in the Biology Building greenhouse on E Third St.

Morning glory is a name for about 1,000 flowers that are in the Convolvulaceae family. These common flowers are so-named because their flowers only bloom in the morning. They grow commonly in tropical ...

The stench like death drew excited visitors to the Franklin Park Zoo yesterday. It was Pugsley, a 5-foot-?1-inch-tall Amorphophallus titanum, better known as ?the corpse flower. “It smells like a dead ...

Season after season, year after year, springtime comes. The sun shines, the baby birds sing, and the flowers bloom. These are all experiences we associate with spring. But why? Why is it that flowers ...

The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Vol. 129, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2002), pp. 187-193 (7 pages) The pollination biology and flower visitors of Lobelia spicata, an herbaceous prairie perennial, ...

Random gene expression underlying flower growth has been revealed. Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell University study shows that even in this ...