The oddball minority of animals that don’t lay eggs includes a tough little snail called a rough periwinkle. Unlike mammals giving birth to kittens and fawns and helpless little humans, this ...

In the field of medicine, many life-saving drugs have been developed from plants. In this category, few have been as successfully employed as the rosy periwinkle, Cathanthus roseus. Native to the ...

Plant scientists have taken the crucial last steps in a 60-year quest to unravel the complex chemistry of Madagascar periwinkle in a breakthrough that opens up the potential for rapid synthesis of ...