Tag: Flowers

  • Nation & World

    For this flower, it’s ready, set, launch

    Harvard researchers used high-speed video to not only quantify how fast the filaments in mountain laurel flowers move, but how they target likely pollinators.

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  • 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.

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  • Nation & World

    Splendid acres

    A thousand or so visitors wandered the colorful collections of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum on Lilac Sunday.

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  • 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