The ray florets do the opening and closing, covering the inner disc florets when closed. On cloudy cool days the daisies might not open at all. The movement of the petals is likely to be as a result ...

Floral development is generally viewed as involving interactions between recently made organs and generative activity on the apical dome; one set of floral organs is thought to induce the next. To ...

The Tradescantia alliance (subtribes Tradescantiinae and Thyrsantheminae of tribe Tradescantieae, family Commelinaceae) comprises a group of closely related New World genera exhibiting considerable ...

When Stockholm-based Canadian Ben Gorham founded Byredo in 2006, his goal was to create a fragrance brand that would express beauty and seductiveness while bypassing the usual marketing clichés. "I ...

Researchers from the University of Helsinki, in collaboration with their Canadian colleagues, have demonstrated how strawberry inflorescence development is dictated by the small growing points, called ...

Grasses have evolved a wide variety of inflorescences, in which the seeds are arranged in many different ways: Some types form complex, branched inflorescences with multiple seeds, while others—such ...