An extremely rare case of a flower that oscillates in colour over time has been discovered by researchers in Japan. The team, led by Nobumitsu Kawakubo at Gifu University, showed that the ...

HYDRANGEAS come in a range of colours, from sweet baby pink flowers to powder blue petals. However, some varieties have the ability to change the colour of their flowers over time. How can you ...

But flowers did not evolve their colour for our pleasure. They did so to attract pollinators. Therefore, to understand why flowers produce such vibrant colours, we have to consider how pollinators ...

Some flower petals have a particularly interesting example of colour-generating nanostructures. Known as striations, these are parallel surface wrinkles in the petals’ cuticle – the upper wax layer of ...

Over 450 species of flower have the ability to shapeshift, altering their colour and positions over the course of a day. The secondary palette tells pollinators that a particular flower has ...

Angiosperms display an astonishing diversity of flower colours. Floral coloration primarily evolved because visual signals enable attraction of animal pollinators. Indeed, flower coloration evolved to ...

Scientists already knew flowers used special colours to attract the right bees, but it turns out they are also combining complex fragrances to create a combined signal.