Research by plant scientists has uncovered a snapshot of evolution in progress, by tracing how a gene mutation over 100 million years ago led flowers to make male and female parts in different ways.

We now know what the ancestor of today’s flowers looked like, thanks to scientists who used computer models to re-create the plant that lived 140 million years ago. Before now, we didn’t understand ...

Plants are incredibly diverse when it comes to their reproductive strategies. Most plants have flowers, and these flowers can be male, female, or both. The male parts of a flower are called stamens, ...

People who lack the gardening bug often regard flowers like fashion models: pretty but boring. Jens Petersen, the man who gave us the groundbreaking photographs of fungi in “The Kingdom of Fungi”, ...

A small green bush, recently found by researchers, has been dubbed a phenomenon for its unbelievable reproduction technique SCIENTISTS have found the first self- loving plant — which slowly rubs ...

Activity 1 – Tap and find Activity 2 – Flowering plant quiz Activity 3 – Steps of flowering reproduction Activity 4 – Label the sexual organs Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female to ...