Artist Macoto Murayama continues to create beautiful images inspired by the intricate structure of flowers. Using the same computer graphics programs and techniques he learned as an architecture ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

Scientists have developed a tiny flower-shaped structure that’s made of a nickel-iron alloy to concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. They revealed that the size of the effect can be ...

Flowers have bright colours, smells and nectar which encourage pollinators to pay them a visit. Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination ...

The organ of sexual reproduction is the flower. Male gametes are found in pollen grains and produced in the anthers of the flower. Female gametes are found in ovules and produced in the ovary of ...