A picture of the vast ecological region known as the Cerrado in Brazil has won first place in this year's International Garden Photographer of the Year. Marcio Cabral of Brasilia, Brazil, scooped ...
Once unfurled, the flower opens for just 24 hours before wilting, making it not only one of the planet's most striking botanical wonders but also one of its most fleeting. It is all but impossible to ...
A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...