DURHAM — With the experience of managing bee colonies with his grandmother, 10-year-old Jason Blake of Rosedale Elementary School had the winning word in mind. He spelled it out, “S-T-A-M-E-N,” and he ...

We now know what the ancestor of today’s flowers looked like, thanks to scientists who used computer models to re-create the plant that lived 140 million years ago. Before now, we didn’t understand ...

Writers have waxed poetic about flowers since quill touched parchment — “a rose by any other name” and all that. But flowers only exist for one reason: reproduction. They lure pollinators that spread ...

A: Mussaenda is a popular landscape plant for South Florida gardens and landscapes. They are classified in the family Rubiaceae with Ixora, coffee, pentas and firebush. It appears Diane’s Dwarf ...