Researchers found its petals covering the body of King Tut when they opened his tomb in 1922, and its flowers often adorn ...

IN my article on “Different Modes of Self-fertilisation where Visits of Insects are wanting” (NATURE, vol. x. p. 129), I gave a short account of the number of sepals, petals, and anthers in a ...

The sepals and petals are both sterile parts of a flower. The leaf-like sepals surround the flower, protecting it before it blooms. Petals are colorful and often patterned ...

However, not everyone agrees that the fossil represents an actual flower or that it is as old as the study claims. Like modern flowers, the fossil sports sepals and petals, the researchers said ...

A recent study investigated the role of the APETALA3–3 ortholog in shaping the diverse morphologies of petals in Delphinium anthriscifolium. This gene, previously known for its function in petal ...

Tulips are among the loveliest of our spring-blooming flowers. The flowers come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and colours to suit all tastes. Taste is, of course, a very personal matter ...

There's more to those sepals than just pretty colours – the hue of a hydrangea can tell you about the ground it's planted in.

When it comes to flower formation, the Leafy (LFY) protein is a veritable workhorse. Flowers are built from parts named sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, which are arranged in whorls.

Flowers are composed of elements such as sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, and the symbolic representation of this composition is called a 'floral formula,' and a schematic diagram showing ...