Flowers play a key role in flight control for bumblebees
A bee can approach a flower from any direction, but markings on the flower help guide bees in the most effective way, like a natural air traffic control.
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A parasitic plant can cause an invasive plant’s allies to switch sides
Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory – and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.
Botanists say the largest amber-preserved flower is a new species
The flower, first discovered over 150 years ago, has yielded new clues from its pollen.
How does the corpse flower’s scent change over time?
The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.
Botanists find a cool way to preserve an endangered plant’s seeds
If you wonder how cool cool is, it’s at least -196 ℃ (-320 ℉).
Pollinators like moths are increasingly missing from a warming subarctic
The complex relationships between plants and their pollinators in subarctic Finland have changed dramatically across the last century
Yew Only Live Twice
Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.
Streetlamps create an artificial summer for urban trees
The long days of summer are stretching into winter, with LED street lights replacing the retreating sun.
Herbivores munch the most helpful trees in tropical forests
Herbivory is a key factor in controlling nitrogen limitation and carbon sequestration by tropical forests affected by climate change.
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