A common deed in the August garden is what gardeners call “deadheading.” This somewhat morbid term is a form of plant-cutting that involves snipping or pinching off flowers after they’ve finished ...

This Valentine's Day, millions of Americans expressed their feelings about someone special in their life through the gift of flowers. In doing so, they followed the advice of a major floral wire ...

These are representative examples of flowers with high (left) and low (right) natural frequency stamens. Flowers were stored in 60 percent ethanol and photographed using a dissection microscope.

Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the origin and early ...