News
Corpse flowers and flesh flies: why so many plants and fungi smell like death
Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body.
Tag: flowers
Science & Environment
The surprising reason flowers wilt
Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making.
News
Rare pink flannel flowers bloom after bushfires
Pink flannel flowers bring a ray of hope and renewal to bushfire-ravaged country.
Wildlife
Name a plant, save a species
Be a champion of our unnamed, but not unloved, threatened species.
Science & Environment
Drought-breaking rains transform endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista
After Queensland’s drought-breaking rain earlier this year, scientists surveyed private farmland and found many dried-out woodlands transformed into flower-filled landscapes.
Science & Environment
When Joseph Banks first arrived in Australia
It has been 250 years since naturalist Joseph Banks sailed to the Pacific with James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. During the voyage, Banks and his team made the first scientific collections of Australian flora. Their specimens were sketched by Sydney Parkinson, whose pioneering illustrations were published last year.
Science & Environment
Native hibiscus dulls male libido, says Indigenous botanist
Could our native hibiscus be the answer to male birth control?
News
New populations of rare desert daisy emerge across SA
Up until now the only known population of the rare purple desert flower existed just north of Coober Pedy.
Destinations
10 regional botanic gardens you need to visit
Australia’s regional botanic gardens are ‘living museums’, not merely places of scenic beauty.
News
Two new species of orchid discovered during bush walk
The two new species of fairy orchid were discovered in the flower hotspot of south west Western Australia.