Producing those large heads requires large amounts of water and nutrients to feed the basal leaves, which produce energy necessary for flowering. Broccoli is generally slow-growing and is best ...

Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty ... The fossil resembled a single sprout plucked from a head of broccoli. The world's first flower? More like a prototype of a flower, said ...

Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global ...

One of my favourites is the brief springtime appearance of flowering kale buds, also known as napini or kale raab. Kale is a member of the brassica family, just like cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, ...