COTTON, though included among self-pollinated plants, is subject to crossing, and the extent of natural cross-pollination under favourable conditions is so great that it is regarded by some as ...

These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

Sapodilla, scientifically known as Manilkara zapota (L.) P. Royen, is an evergreen tree native to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and Central America. It thrives in subtropical and tropical ...

Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago. They survived the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago and lived through several glacial periods ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests inhabited by fantasy and also by our fears. In fable and legend, a forest shelters spirits, witches ...

It is one of 12 trees chronicled by Daniel Lewis, a historian at the Huntington Library in California, in a marvellous new book. This arboreal adventure takes you up the trunk of the mighty ceiba ...

It’s autumn, and that means the leaves on the trees are turning beautiful shades of yellow and red, before falling off entirely. It provides cheap entertainment for people and pets. It’s a way ...

Study Reveals Urban Trees Suffer More from Heat Waves and Drought Than Their Rural Counterparts Aug. 13, 2024 — A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively ...

Planning your next workout just got easier. Each of the challenges below lasts four weeks—or longer!—and takes the guesswork out of what to do. That's because our fitness challenges come with ...

In a TED Talk, organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich defines self-awareness as "the ability to see ourselves clearly, to understand who we are, how others see us and how we fit into the world.” ...