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 ...

The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

(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 ...

New research has shown that certain Australian native flowers have shifted away from using insects as pollinators and evolved their flower color to the red hues favored by birds. New research has ...

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 ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower ...

Bronwyn Modra says she has always had an interest in flowers, however the motivation to start her own farm came after the passing of her father. "When my father passed away I went to do a short course ...