Plants with buds the size of basketballs, which open flowers up to a meter across, must be reclassified as relatives of poinsettias, say researchers who’ve examined the DNA of the world’s largest ...

A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...

Even though it smells like rotting flesh, the so-called 'corpse flower' is a huge draw at botanical gardens all over the world. In addition to its shockingly putrid scent, it can grow over ten feet ...