The nectar of the almond tree produces an extraordinary and dangerous poison. This is the only known plant to have this poison in its flowers' nectar. A study carried out at the University of Haifa ...

It’s night, and plant biologist Arthur Domingos de Melo is looking up at the open, ivory flowers of a tropical, hardwood tree. Though it’s the dry season in the arid, thorny Caatinga region of ...

Winter birds need all they can help they can get, especially when it comes to food and shelter this time of the year. The tiny Anna’s hummingbirds that overwinter in local gardens especially need ...

The pentailed tree shrew has been found by an international team of researchers to drink copious amounts of fermented floral nectar, yet appears to remain sober. The same relative amount of beer drunk ...

Has the almond tree developed a unique way of drawing potential pollinators? A group of researchers in Israel speculate that the toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact ...