"Floral morphology remains the cornerstone for plant identification and studies of plant evolution. This guide gives a global overview of the floral diversity of the angiosperms through the use of ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...

Artist Macoto Murayama continues to create beautiful images inspired by the intricate structure of flowers. Using the same computer graphics programs and techniques he learned as an architecture ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Mar., 1935), pp. 366-383 (18 pages) 1. The inflorescence, the development of the flower up to the time of fertilization, and the anatomy of the flower of ...

Figure 1: Whorled versus spiral flowers. Figure 2: Dynamic expression of floral organ identity genes in Nigella damascena. Figure 4: Floral organ identity determination in wild-type, ‘Double Sepals’ ...