Tsukuba, Japan—In nature, flowers may share morphological features, even across distantly related species. Bilateral symmetry is one such feature found in flowers of various taxa, such as orchids and ...

Flowers have an innate ability to bounce back after injury from falling branches or being trampled underfoot, according to a new study. Ecologists looked at a random sample of 23 native and cultivated ...

Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some injured flowers bent and twisted themselves back into the best possible ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Peter Watson: That was an accident of history. When I was choosing a project for my PhD I wanted to ...

How did bilaterally symmetric flowers evolve from radially symmetric ones? To address this important question, geneticists Francisco Perfectti and Juan Pedro M. Camacho, and ecologist José M. Gómez ...

Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some injured flowers bent and twisted themselves back into the best possible ...

I experimentally examined in Bidens aristosa whether extent of flower symmetry affected pollination by insects. Flowers that were treated to increase asymmetry were visited by significantly fewer ...

Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after ...