University of Melbourne research has established when and where flowering plants first took a foothold. New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering plants are 126 million years old and ...

A Tasmanian flower producer wants country of origin labelling on imported blooms, which account for about half of the Australian market. Australian flower growers struggling to compete with cheap ...

Museums and herbariums often share samples of various plant species, allowing experts around the world to study rare specimens. But a recent collaborative effort between the National Museum of Natural ...

AT a moderate computation, the flora of Australia contains some eleven thousand species of vascular plants. These are found over an area about twenty-five times the size of Great Britain and Ireland, ...

Staff and visitors at Australia's Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are hoping to see — and smell — a rare event that could come at any moment: the blooming of a giant amorphophallus titanum, also known as ...