Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that ...

Not surprisingly, it does not have the energy to flower every year. It might be five to ten years between flowering. But in ideal growing conditions, it can be as short as two to three years. All of ...

To see the corpse flower is to witness to the powerful majesty – and daft absurdity – of nature. It’s about to happen in ...

Ficus hispida presents a rare opportunity to study dioecy, where plants exist as distinct male or female individuals. Its ...

Prunus padus is commonly known as bird cherry. Prunus is the Latinised form of the Greek word meaning plum, and padus is the ...

After much anticipation Geelong’s corpse plant, which only flowers once every seven to ten years, is finally starting to open – but you only have 48 hours to see it.

The protagonists in her images deliver a masterclass in layering jewels: wearing mookuthi ( nose studs on both sides), kappu (bangles), mothiram (rings) but also metti (toe rings), thodu (stud ear- ...

Color, which plays an important role in the lives of some plants and animals, frequently tells an environmental story and ...

Since the SACNAS conference emphasizes sharing cultural experiences, Cheryl Sangueza, PhD, the lead for grant student ...

This flower entices plant lovers not with a delightful smell but with its rotting, foul odour. Popularly known as ‘corpse ...

Mimicry in animals is a common form of protection from predators. For instance, two distasteful or toxic butterflies may ...

Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making.