(CNN) — When plant biologist Jing-Yi Lu was earning his bachelor’s degree in Taiwan, he began to take note of the local flora. He paid particular attention to the lipstick vines, which, in Taiwan, ...

Most lipstick vines have flowers that are shaped like a tube of lipstick— but not this one. Scientists dug into the plants’ family tree to figure out when and where this oddball evolved. Lipstick ...

Almost every plant we eat has a flower, and flowering plants populate every corner of the planet. But many questions remain about how and when this vast group emerged throughout the history of life on ...

Cacti may look like slow, stubborn desert survivors, but they’re actually evolving at lightning speed. Scientists studying ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers ...

Biologists say there’s more to your favourite flowers than just beauty. Their different colours, petal shapes and scents are ...