Very few plants command attention in your home and garden like the unusual and captivating bird-of-paradise plant. Nicknamed ...

Birds of paradise are found in New Guinea and surrounding islands. The manucodes and riflebirds species also dwell in Australia. Birds of paradise are so attractive that their appearance once made ...

Heliconia plants are famed for their flowers ... Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks. Gardeners have cultivated ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

Most houseplants are tropical plants that require the warm, somewhat humid conditions of their natural habitat. Inside, they ...

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science revealed a surprising discovery: 37 out of 45 known species of birds-of-paradise exhibit biofluorescence, emitting green or yellow ...

Heliconia bella in Panama. This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study.

Here, the plants are important ecological resources ... Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks.