Australia is a bird lover’s delight. Even those of us who haven’t taken up birding as an obsession can’t help but be delighted by the wealth of brightly colored, charismatic species. One large 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 ...

Some Australian-grown flowers will be bunched together by new green and gold rubber bands to help buyers identify local blooms. Australian flower growers hope new labelling will encourage people to ...

Try growing the Australian fan flower. Like most Aussies, this annual flower is tough, surviving extreme heat and drought while keeping its cool. A lovely trailer, with thick green leaves and blue fan ...

Martin Burd was involved in the study mentioned in the article. In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant and important nectar-feeding birds, so also the most important avian ...

PICTURE THIS: You’ve woken up in a cold sweat, realising that tomorrow is your best friend’s birthday. Or it’s Mother’s Day. Or Valentine’s. Or — okay, it happens — your anniversary. Sometimes time ...

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 ...

Supermarkets sell mostly cheap, imported flowers that are treated with chemicals and flown around the world after being picked. About half of the cut flowers (and the majority of roses) sold in ...

This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news whenever it flowers in a botanic garden around the world. It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum, a genus not closely related to true ...

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