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HOUSTON — You may want to pack some nose plugs if you're visiting the Houston Museum of Natural Science this weekend. That’s because the museum is warning that their corpse flower nicknamed ‘Meg’ is ...

On damp days in the mountains of northern Japan, one of the most remarkable flower transformations unfolds. A patch of unassuming white flowers, that you’d barely notice against the forest’s deep ...

Visitors at the Houston Museum of Natural Science have to lean in a bit closer on Thursday to catch a whiff of the corpse flower that bloomed earlier this week. The fading stench, which many visitors ...

A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

More flowers should mean healthier bees, right? Not always. Scientists studying wild bees in Israel have discovered that greater flower diversity can sometimes increase viral infections rather than ...

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H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds to ...

With air temperatures down in the 20's away from Louisville this morning and a couple other conditions being just right, we saw some frost flowers! I have to give a huge shout-out to Astrid Richter ...

MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (WNCT) — The University of Mount Olive will hold their annual plant sale on April 10 at the University ...