Tag: Flowering plants

  • Nation & World

    Stages of bloom

    Harvard researchers have solved the nearly 200-year-old mystery of how Rafflesia, the largest flowering plants in the world, develop.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Clues on how flowering plants spread

    Researchers at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum have highlighted female competition among plants, saying it is a new factor that could have driven the mystifying diversity of flowering plants.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Passion and the flowering plant

    The Arnold Arboretum’s new director, William “Ned” Friedman, has been intrigued by plants’ structure and origin — and captivated by their beauty — for three decades.

    4 minutes