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Plants changed the atmosphere, built soil and created ecosystems that allowed animals like us to thrive. But first they had to make their way from the water to the land.
New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that open just in time for the festive season.
It makes great sense many plants flower when the insects and birds so vital to their reproductive success are also getting busier (and getting busy).
Climate change is already reshaping the towering mountain ash forests of southeastern Australia, new research shows.
Chaos gardening is touted on social media as an easy, no-effort way to create a beautiful garden. A landscape specialist explains what to be aware of before chaotically tossing seeds around.
Africa’s flowers have been meticulously documented across 1.9 million sites on the continent and in Madagascar.
While its large brilliant flowers attracted early horticultural attention, this summertime stunner’s path to being a successful urban tree has not always been easy.
The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and flesh flies
New research suggests insects have pollinated flowers since the pollen-bearing blooms first evolved more than 140 million years ago.
Millions of years before dinosaur footsteps first set tremors through the Earth, this flowering plant family was already thriving – and you can still find them in gardens today.
Climate change is throwing plants and pollinators out of sync.
Monitoring the timing of recurring biological events is key to understanding the effects of climate change.
Scientists have reconstructed the common ancestor of everything from rose bushes to oak trees, ivy or wheat.
The fossilized plant Montsechia relied on water to disseminate its genetic material and may rewrite the book on when and how the first flowering plants evolved.
Hummingbird-pollinated flowers evolved perfectly to suit the bird’s bill shape, its colour vision and even its taste buds. This is the beauty of co-evolution, where two species interact so closely that…
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences and Paleobotany, Indiana University
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Reader in Cell and Molecular Biology, Oxford Brookes University
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PhD Candidate, Pests and Climate Change, University of Reading
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Emeritus Professor of Botany, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD Candidate, Pollination and Climate Change, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology, Adelaide University
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Director, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head of Plant Discovery and Evolution Research, Botanic Gardens of Sydney, and Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Plant Ecology, Curtin University
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University