angiosperms (flowering plants)

It is a "one-day, citywide, volunteer effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from invasive species through hands-on removal of especially harmful trees, vines and flowering plants," said Carter Dawson, a WeedWrangle organizer. Dawson explained that volunteers from around the city will go ...

This lovely “Lavender Lady,” as some call it, is the largest flowering plant in the world. Every spring, more than a million gorgeous purple blossoms drape from its tangled branches. Its seeds originally came from China, and two homeowners planted it in 1894 to celebrate their new house. In a sad twist of fate, the wistaria ...

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor as young as a literal interpretation of their fossil ... “The discrepancy between estimates of angiosperm evolution from molecular data and fossil records has caused much debate,” said co-author Dr. Jose ...

Researchers found that flowering plants are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor are they as young as a literal interpretation of their fossil record. In fact, the discrepancy between the estimates of flowering plant evolution from molecular data and fossil records has caused much ...

"Similarly, interpretations of the fossil record have not fully recognised its shortcomings as an archive of evolutionary history, that is, that the oldest fossil evidence of flowering plants comes from very advanced, not primitive flowering plant lineages," Professor Donoghue added. The researchers compiled a ...

An obscure shrub found only in New Caledonia emerged as probably the first flowering plant found by man. Amborella trichopoda, right at the bottom of angiospermum list and living deep within the tropical forests there, has tiny, 6mm, greenish-yellow flowers. It is thought that water lilies were next in line, ...

Even so, there are a few provinces in the east, including Yunnan and the rapidly developing Guangdong, that the researchers identified as the areas of greatest genetic diversity for flowering plants. In these same places, though, plant life is under the greatest threat from development pressures, and the ...