If you came across wild ginger, you’d think it looks innocent ... But Okuyama’s team found that these flowers don’t use the same DSS enzyme. They likely evolved their stench using a different chemical ...

Flower lover Ranjini Kamath says, “I have quite a few different ginger lilies. The red torch ginger is incredibly beautiful and they look striking in flower arrangements and last a long time.” ...

A wild ginger has a clever trick up its sleeve to lure in pollinators. No, it's not a sweet fragrance that fills the air, but ...

The flowers of Chinese tropical ginger (Alpinia) last for only one day. But it's an action-packed day. During this time, the flower's female sex organs take elaborate evasive action to avoid ...

Torch Ginger is an attractive member of the Ginger family. The flowers are long lasting and showy. The inflorescences (the complete flower head of the plant including stems, stalks, bracts ...

this ginger isn't grown by many people even though it's a great plant. "It flowers earlier than most and does well in frosty pockets." The modern-day pIant hunter said it was given to him by a ...

Ginger flowers switch their working gender–from female to male or vice versa–in unison around lunchtime. This newly discovered synchronized gender swap in nine species of the genus Alpinia ...