Tsukuba, Japan—In nature, flowers may share morphological features, even across distantly related species. Bilateral symmetry is one such feature found in flowers of various taxa, such as orchids and ...

I experimentally examined in Bidens aristosa whether extent of flower symmetry affected pollination by insects. Flowers that were treated to increase asymmetry were visited by significantly fewer ...

The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to a new ...

Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after injury, according to a new study. Some flowers have a remarkable and previously unknown ability to bounce back after ...

A busy lizzie, an example of a flower able to recover quickly from being trampled on Some flowers can recover with remarkable speed after a major accident, such as being walked upon by humans.

Some flowers can recover with remarkable speed after a major accident, such as being walked upon by humans. Scientists found that species including orchid and sweet pea could re-orient themselves in ...