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, ...

Modern roses, as we know them, date to 1867, when enthusiasts in Europe bred a “hybrid perpetual” rose with a “tea rose.” The ...

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HOUSTON — Roses are red and violets are blue, but at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a corpse flower named "Meg" is expected, to smell, too. “I’ve never seen a flower like that," Amia Adams ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they uncovered an evolutionary mystery.

Visitors at the Houston Museum of Natural Science have to lean in a bit closer on Thursday to catch a whiff of the corpse flower that bloomed earlier this week. The fading stench, which many visitors ...

HOUSTON — You may want to pack some nose plugs if you're visiting the Houston Museum of Natural Science this weekend. That’s because the museum is warning that their corpse flower nicknamed ‘Meg’ is ...