It’s hard to believe flowers were not created just for our enjoyment, but they have a higher purpose. The anatomy of a flower, as well as the color and scent, tell us a lot about the intention of each ...

Ivy: …and the roots and the stems and the leaves and the flowers are all present and correct, and nobody has tried to hack them apart. Posey: Aunt Ivy, your nose is ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Everybody knows that, but what makes them so? Although plant breeders were aware of some of the genes involved, there was as yet no quantitative study of how pigment ...

The structure and anatomy of mature flowers of four species of Meliosma is investigated using scanning electron and light microscopy. The vasculature of the flower, including the structure of the ...

An ambitious effort to reconstruct the world’s first flower has seeded a debate over what forms a blossom can and cannot take. The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled database of plant ...

The important features of vascular anatomy of the flower of certain unusual forms of Ranunculus, Caltha, and Delphinium, together with the important features of floral vascular anatomy of the families ...