Australia is a bird lover’s delight. Even those of us who haven’t taken up birding as an obsession can’t help but be delighted by the wealth of brightly colored, charismatic species. One large and ...

(Phys.org)—In a study just published in New Phytologist, researchers from RMIT and Monash universities have shown for the first time that Australian native flowers exclusively pollinated by birds have ...

A Tasmanian flower producer wants country of origin labelling on imported blooms, which account for about half of the Australian market. Australian flower growers struggling to compete with cheap ...

Australian flowers and their pollinators have evolved a specific way of communicating – all based upon colour. aussiegall/Flickr, CC BY-SA In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant ...

In a land where unique species thrive, local florists are developing a gloriously twisted aesthetic all their own. Accompanying this story are three floral sculptures created exclusively for T. Here, ...

Jessica Eckford-Aguilera at Newcastle is the founder of Flower Summit, a body built to showcase and elevate women in floriculture, and is pushing for clearer flower origin labelling in Australia. She ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower ...

It is estimated only 50% of flowers sold in Australia are locally grown, but florists and growers say local is ‘a superior product’. Here they share tips for buying blooms that last Melbourne florist ...