The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Botanical Gazette Vol. 26, No. 3, Sep., 1898 The Origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed H... The Origin of Gymnosperms and the Seed Habit This is the ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that could explain the nanoscale architecture of ...

The study revealed that the differences between angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (seed-producing plants) are not always clear-cut. In addition to the discovery of a new kind of wood ...

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old ...

Angiosperms produce flowers and fruits, which contain their seeds. Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the ...

What the researchers found where the birds stomachs were once located are seeds that used to be covered ... Longipteryx appears to have fed from were gymnosperms, relatives of today's conifers ...

Ginkgos are a unique type of plant. They're gymnosperms like conifers, meaning they have seeds but don't produce flowers. The first species of Ginkgo evolved in the Permian, before the dinosaurs. One ...

Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an ... Longipteryx was feeding from gymnosperms, relatives of the ginkgos and conifers around today. Longipteryx also lived in ...

Insect pollination happens earlier on in the Jurassic with gymnosperms [a group of seed-producing plants], but it becomes much bigger with the flowering plants.' 'So, there is this big evolutionary ...