"My favorite small win for sanity today: After a 5-year gender-neutral absence, Disney has restored ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ to the Magic Kingdom monorail greeting," one user wrote on X April 15.

Notable appearances in culture: Alongside the plum, orchid and bamboo, the chrysanthemum is one of the four key plants (known as the Four Gentlemen) in Chinese brush painting; it has featured in East ...

Like many animals, parrots make sounds that suggest they are talking with each other, maybe even calling out to a specific ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

The pungent flower in question is a tropical plant called titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a species of corpse flower.

Flowering plants have unique genetic advantages over other organisms. They are also crucial providers of the food we need to ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

From ancient Greece to modern interiors, experts reveal the enduring symbolism of orchids, and what your favorite orchid says ...

Severus Snape was no stranger to snide remarks or aggravating commands, but one of his earliest lines actually foreshadowed ...

No entrance fee, no parking charge, no hidden costs, just pure Florida wilderness available to anyone who takes the time to ...

In her new book, floral designer and writer Christin Geall takes us on a global tour, discussing the culture of flowers with originality and wit. Well-paced and fabulously illustrated, Flora Culture: ...