The majority of cacao trees are what are known as self-incompatible, meaning they cannot pollinate themselves. Successful pollinators must pick up pollen from the male parts of a flower of one ...

In some parts of the world, birds, bats and even lizards also get involved. Pollination is how flowering plants reproduce. Pollen needs to travel from the flower's male part, called the anther, to the ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

This will start a new plant. Ivy: So it can create new plants on its own? You're exploding my mind. This film explores the process of pollination and the roles different parts of a plant play.

New study suggest that flowers can actually "hear" the buzzing sounds that bees make when they fly around looking for nectar ...

As a result, pollination may fail — which is bad ... and their young and then transfer the pollen from male parts of one flower to the female parts of another, fertilizing it in the process.

Every summer and fall in parts of Ethiopia, the red hot poker blooms, setting the high grasslands ablaze with its clusters of tubular flowers. Sponsor Message "It's really like fire torches in the ...

DANIEL: Every summer and fall in parts of Ethiopia, the plant goes into bloom and sets ... DANIEL: Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen is a pollination ecologist at the University of the Free State in South ...

A wolf walks into a flower — and appears to pollinate it The Ethiopian wolf ... Every summer and fall in parts of Ethiopia, the red hot poker blooms, setting the high grasslands ablaze with ...

As a result, pollination may fail — which is bad news for flowers and crops. How do microplastics in our environment potentially harm pollination? Recent studies have shown that tiny pieces of ...