When it comes to how to preserve flower petals, you have your pick of a few methods. “Some are easy enough for kids; others will have you working with chemicals and heat,” says artisan ...

Call me basic, but I literally gush over some nice flowers. When I discovered Petals on the Go, a flower truck locally based in the Triangle, my reaction was nothing short of ecstatic.

Researchers have decoded the complete genome of Chionanthus retusus, a widely cultivated ornamental tree known for its ...

Whitney, Glover and their colleagues found that flowers use more subtle, or imperfect, iridescence on their petals, which doesn't interfere with the bees' ability to distinguish subtly different ...

Whitney showed that the bees were ignoring the mutant snapdragons because they didn’t feel right. She gave bees a choice between two snapdragon flowers – a white one with conical cells (the ...

Scientists recently discovered a solitary bee that cuts flower petals and forms them into tiny cocoons like papier-mache. These productive little artists make a nest less than an inch long for ...

Flowers tone down the iridescence of their petals and avoid confusing bees Date: February 25, 2016 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Latest research shows that flowers' iridescent petals ...

But something about blowing a giant cloud of flower petals is intrinsically fun. And when combined with the serene music and gorgeous visuals, it's more than just fun; it's relaxing.

Plants that overexpress AGL15, a plant protein, do not trigger HAESA, so the flowers do not shed petals. The findings showed that AGL15 averts the expression of HAESA by hindering its transcription.