Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

This is the largest known amber-preserved fossil flower, measuring about 3cm across and about three times as large as most ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

But in 1998, this ancient plant discovered in the fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China graced the cover of Science and made headlines worldwide. It was heralded as the earliest ...

Both the bulbs and the foliage are frost-hardy well into sub-zero temperatures, making them well-suited for growing in the ...

See G.O. Poinar et al., “Tropidogyne pentaptera, sp. nov., a new mid-Cretaceous fossil angiosperm flower in Burmese amber,” Palaeodiversity, 10:135-40, 2017.

The golden daffodils and jonquils and narcissus are truly heirloom flowers in America. Old abandoned homesteads, ancient ...