Museums and herbariums often share samples of various plant species, allowing experts around the world to study rare specimens. But a recent collaborative effort between the National Museum of Natural ...

Valentine’s Day this Monday will open the floodgates for the import of foreign flowers into Australia. While many romantics may prefer to buy locally grown bouquets, most retailers won’t be revealing ...

Florists and growers are calling for country-of-origin logos to be placed on bunches of flowers this Valentine's Day to support growers battling a glut of cheap imports and years of drought and ...

That’s the call from the industry’s peak body, Flower Industry Australia, which claims the flower industry deals with “significant biosecurity risks” from imported blooms every year. It comes after a ...

When you buy a bunch of flowers today for that someone special, do you know where the blooms were grown? Does it even matter? The national body representing Australia's flower growers and florists ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower ...

Flowers are on display as part of an annual flower festival in Canberra, Australia, Sept. 12, 2020. The festival, namely Floriade, runs from Sept. 12 to Oct. 11 in Canberra. In response to the ...

University of Melbourne research has established when and where flowering plants first took a foothold. New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering plants are 126 million years old and ...