A Tasmanian flower producer wants country of origin labelling on imported blooms, which account for about half of the Australian market. Australian flower growers struggling to compete with cheap ...

IntroductionSince last time, I have started a new series on note called “Traveling Makes Me Love Plants More”. This is a ...

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 ...

Nestled within the lush green bushland of the NSW Mid North Coast, Paul Dalley's flower farm is the last place a crop of Sturt's desert pea would be expected to thrive. The floral emblem of South ...

(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers in Australia has shown that the evolution of flowers in that country was driven by the preferences of bees, rather than the other way around. In their paper ...

(Phys.org)—In a study just published in New Phytologist, researchers from RMIT and Monash universities have shown for the first time that Australian native flowers exclusively pollinated by birds have ...

From 1 July this year, we’ll start to see country of origin labels appear on food packaging. These mandatory reforms apply to “priority items,” meaning the stuff you find in the fresh produce and ...

Australian flowers and their pollinators have evolved a specific way of communicating – all based upon colour. aussiegall/Flickr, CC BY-SA In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant ...

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 ...