For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

Birds are customary companions to flowers in nearly every country. In the 19th century, designers incorporated elegant birds in fancy wallpapers, on colorful lampshades, in jewelry and atop the ...

Scientists found a tropical vine that changed its flowers without losing its pollinators, revealing a more flexible path to plant evolution.

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - As summer wears out and plants go to seed, you may not think the browning flowers on your Echinacea plants are very pretty, but lots of birds sure find them attractive. Echinacea ...

When researchers studying several bird-pollinated species of Impatiens flowers in the mountains of western Cameroon noticed one with an odd, upwardly curving nectar spur, they couldn't imagine how any ...

Galapagos finches are known for their wondrous diversity of beak shapes. Their variety of bills are remarkably well adapted to their different feeding habits, which range from cracking seeds to ...

Scientists have described the oldest known fossil of a pollinating bird. The well-preserved stomach contents contained pollen from various flowering plants. This indicates that the relationship ...

Almost worth building a conservatory for, the bird of paradise plant (Strelitzia) has architectural leaves and flamboyant ...