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Orchidomania: A history of our obsession with orchids
These images from a new illustrated book chart the long human love affair with orchids, the incredible family of flowering plants that continue to captivate us today
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How to grow tremendous tulips
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Life
How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance
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Environment
Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes
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Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than we thought
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Soap bubbles covered in pollen could help fertilise flowers
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Orchids at Kew Gardens review – celebrating the colour of Colombia
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Earth
Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
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Weird ‘underground’ flower has evolved to look like a mushroom
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What the first flower on Earth might have looked like
Some time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed – an enormous evolutionary study offers clues about its appearance
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Bumblebees can tell who visited flowers by smelly footprints
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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline
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Mystery of why some sunflowers track the sun across skies solved
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Bumblebees cope with climate change by evolving shorter tongues
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