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Augochloropsis metallica visiting Pycnanthemum muticum.

The impact of the garden surroundings on visiting pollinators

Providing flowers year-round, regardless of garden type, is crucial for attracting pollinators.

Close-up of butterfly pollinating on flower

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...

A diverse community of land plants, ranging from mosses to flowering species, grow together in boggy stream in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

Unveiling how plants evolved over the past billion years

Explore the evolutionary process of plants with this Nature Plants study.

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Rare palm species discovered that they flower underground

Palm family (Arecaceae) to flower and fruit almost entirely underground.

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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.

Image showing Pollination Process.

Soil nutrients affect the attractiveness of plants to bees from the ground up

Soil nutrition affects floral traits, pollinator attraction & cucumber fitness.

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