Flowers
Genome Reveals When Opium Poppy Became a Painkiller
A combination of two genes over 7.8 million years ago was the first step to producing morphine and other narcotic compounds
See Georgia O’Keeffe’s Little-Known Hawaii Paintings Blossom Next to Real Plants
The show at the New York Botanical Gardens features 300 Hawaiian plant types
How to Protect Your Local Pollinators in Ten Easy Ways
As the first annual World Bee Day looms, insect and garden lovers are abuzz with excitement
This Friday, You Can Visit More Than 150 of the Best Gardens in the U.S. for Free
Celebrate National Public Gardens Day May 11
This Stunning Memorial to Britain's WWI Soldiers Makes Its Final Appearance
The wave of brilliant red flowers marks the end of a centennial of commemorations of the Great War
Take a Last Look at Washington, D.C.'s Cherry Blossoms (Photos)
See them while you can
How Flowers Manipulate Light to Send Secret Signals to Bees
Come-hither blue haloes are just one of the effects employed by nature’s first nanotechnologists
There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
A new movie sets its doomed entrepreneurs amidst 17th-century “tulipmania”—but historians of the phenomenon have their own bubble to burst
What Did the Ancestor of All Flowers Look Like?
Tracing back the genetic tree of flowering plants millions of years, scientists recreate the predecessor of Earth's flowers
The Scientific Feat That Birthed the Blue Chrysanthemum
In a world first, scientists engineered the flowers to take on an azure hue
Over 60,000 Plants Bloom Inside the World’s Largest Orchid Garden
Step inside Singapore's National Orchid Garden, a collection that includes 600 newly created hybrid species
Historical Pressed Flowers Accidentally Destroyed in Australia
The flowers are “literally irreplaceable”
Why Morning Glories Could Survive Space Travel
The seed of the common garden flower could survive long journeys in space
Meet Stinky ‘Bucky,’ the Bulbophyllum Orchid that Shutdown a Smithsonian Greenhouse
Orchid expert Tom Mirenda says history records the stench of this plant as reminiscent of a thousand dead elephants rotting in the sun
California’s Lush Super Bloom Is Even More Stunning From Space
Satellite images captured an explosion of flowers stretching across California’s desert hills
Thousands of Lego Daffodils Are Blooming in Britain
The brick-built botanicals celebrate the UK’s 2017 City of Culture
Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly
Victorians were obsessed with vividly-colored wallpaper, which is on-trend for this year–though arsenic poisoning is never in style
After Intense Downpour, Superblooming California Has a Problem
In a word: weeds
The Bee That Breaks Your Heart
Insects are hard-pressed to get protection as endangered species. Can one fuzzy anomaly beat the odds?
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