The factors underlying the patterning of the hundreds of flowers comprising the inflorescences of gerberas and sunflowers, both representing the same plant family, have now been identified. The ...

Tiny flowers, or florets, make up the center of a Kula sunflower in this photo taken earlier this month. The large head of a sunflower is an inflorescence or composite flower made up of two kinds of ...

When people are asked to draw the flower of a sunflower plant, almost everyone draws a large circle encircled by yellow petals. "Actually, that structure is the flower head, or the capitulum, which ...

The meristem of the gerbera is patterned on the molecular level already at a stage where no primordia or other changes are discernible by even an electron microscope. When people are asked to draw the ...