Boosting floral scents would not only make flower beds more aesthetically pleasing, it would also improve the yield and quality of many crops. Plants use floral scents to attract pollinators or to ...

The flower had many concentric cycles of petal-like organs in sets of three, arranged in whorls, and was bisexual. Hervé Sauquet, from Université Paris-Sud, France, one of the authors of the ...

Its flowers come in many colours – purple, pink, red, orange, blue, white, brown, and green. What is most fascinating about this plant is that the petals of the flowers form the face of a monkey ...

She found that the pre-pattern begins as a small, crescent-shaped region long before the bullseye is visible on tiny petals ...