Poppies are herbaceous plants recognized for their delicate, cup-shaped flowers and brilliant colors, ranging from red and orange to pink and white. They are famously associated with remembrance and ...

Dartmouth scientists sniff out the genes — and identify a new chemical compound — that drive titan arum's pungent odor. The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because ...

Now that the weather is cooling, you might notice that some of the plants we encounter look nothing like their mid-summer ...

The colorful blooms of azaleas light up public spaces and private gardens.

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...