When all else fails for pollination, a yellow flower in the ginger family relies on a substance that botanists say they’ve never seen before: a do-it-yourself oil slick. Caulokaempferia coenobialis ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...

In nature, the quest to survive and spread is essential — and that’s certainly true for flowers. We might see them as vibrant harbingers of spring or precursors to juicy tomatoes, but from the ...

Ninety percent of flowering plants require the help of animal pollinators to reproduce, including most of the food crops we eat. But massive declines in the populations of bees, the most efficient ...

As stated in our review of the first volume (vol Ixxiv., 1906, p. 605), Knuth's “Handbook of Flower Pollination” is an encyclopaedic work, and the second volume, which is now before us, dealing as it ...