Flower
The impact of the garden surroundings on visiting pollinators
Providing flowers year-round, regardless of garden type, is crucial for attracting pollinators.
Butterflies build static electricity to attract pollen without touching it
Butterflies and moths collect enough static electricity while flying to pull pollen from flowers across gaps of several millimeters or centimeters. This likely makes...
Unveiling how plants evolved over the past billion years
Explore the evolutionary process of plants with this Nature Plants study.
Rare palm species discovered that they flower underground
Palm family (Arecaceae) to flower and fruit almost entirely underground.
Smartphone plant identification apps may not be accurate enough to be relied on
A repeatable scoring system for assessing Smartphone applications ability to identify herbaceous plants.
Soil nutrients affect the attractiveness of plants to bees from the ground up
Soil nutrition affects floral traits, pollinator attraction & cucumber fitness.
