Concerned scientists have come together to identify key threats and research priorities for a Threatened Ecological Community in Western Australia.
Edible floral trichomes discovered in bee-pollinated Pinguicula species show carnivorous plants can feed insects as well as feed on insects.
A surprising number of plants snack on fungi as well as sunshine.
Policies brought into protect plants could also cause harm by restricting research into habitats.
Unpredictability means that the traits needed to survive in seasonally flooded marshes are different to tidally flooded marshes.
Sometimes it’s a good idea not to send a consistent message to your pollinators.
Were there land-bridges in the past that enabled trees to travel from mountaintop to mountaintop?
Li and colleagues combined the use of transmission electron microscopy, x-ray microtomography, and transcriptome methods to characterize the major anatomical and molecular changes that occur during the development and death of velamen radicum cells of Cymbidium tracyanum, a typical epiphytic orchid.
Why would a flower want sterile stamens. An investigation into their development yields some clues.