Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by ...

This species disperses little pollen "boats" that float around until they hit the stigmas on female flowers of other wild celery plants. (The stigma is the sticky section of a flower that receives ...

Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique self-pollination method.

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

The diminutive orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus was named in 1891 for the finger-like appendage on its stigma. Now, over 130 years later, Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji has discovered that ...