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 lilies.
Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making.
Pink flannel flowers bring a ray of hope and renewal to bushfire-ravaged country.
Be a champion of our unnamed, but not unloved, threatened species.
After Queensland’s drought-breaking rain earlier this year, scientists surveyed private farmland and found many dried-out woodlands transformed into flower-filled landscapes.
It has been 250 years since naturalist Joseph Banks sailed to the Pacific with James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. During the voyage, Banks and his team made the first scientific collections of Australian flora. Their specimens were sketched by Sydney Parkinson, whose pioneering illustrations were published last year.
Could our native hibiscus be the answer to male birth control?
Up until now the only known population of the rare purple desert flower existed just north of Coober Pedy.
Australia’s regional botanic gardens are ‘living museums’, not merely places of scenic beauty.
The two new species of fairy orchid were discovered in the flower hotspot of south west Western Australia.