The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. With its putrid stench, ...

THIS little book is intended for students who have already studied the elementary principles of botanical science. It is divided into three parts, dealing with respectively, the most general ...

Douglas E. Soltis is at the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. A number of botanical innovations accompanied ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Flowering plants - from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse ...

Flowering plants with at least 300,000 species are by far the most diverse group of plants on Earth. They include almost all the species used by people for food, medicine, and many other purposes.