Clearly, pollination truly does rely on the birds and the bees, as well as insects, to fulfill plant reproduction. They are ...

This species disperses little pollen "boats" that float around until they hit the stigmas on female flowers of other wild celery plants. (The stigma is the sticky section of a flower that receives ...

Many people live busy lives, but when they stop to smell the roses they might see a pollinator balanced on the petals. It’s ...

In the plant kingdom, survival often depends on adaptation, and in that regard, some plants have managed to develop truly ingenious and curious systems. If there are animals that pretend to be flowers ...

To harvest the saffron, you need a lot of hand works to pick up the flowers, separate — saffron is dehydrated or dry stigma. The stigma is the female part of flower. You have to separate that ...

Many people live busy lives, but when they stop to smell the roses they might see a pollinator balanced on the petals. It’s ...

you need over 150 flowers to make just 1 gram of saffron. And the stuff you have at home in the cupboard could well be fake. So just what makes this spice so expensive? Saffron is the red stigma ...