With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.

Pollination is crucial to plant life, but it also affects us in ways that go beyond farmland. Here's your guide to all things pollination.

This dataset will be used to train AI models to aid pollen identifications. Most samples derive from the Graham Palynological Collection, donated to STRI in 2008, which holds about 18,000 species of ...

According to the scientists, this finding suggests that the explosive force of the flower's catapult doesn't just serve to deposit its own pollen, but also to remove rival pollen.

Explore the mesmerizing world of the Morning Glory flower as we delve into its incredible microcosm through a microscope.

Even if two different kinds of flower were in the same bouquet, it wouldn’t make sense for the pollen of two different species of flowers to be so closely stuck together.