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High-Wire Feat for Single-Stem Flowers - The florist Kelsie Hayes floats flowers, dangling them above the dinner table like acrobats in flight.
Picking Up a Fare in the Flower District - A Checker cab carries some very pleasant cargo.
Scientists Give a Chrysanthemum the Blues - There are few true blue flowers in nature, but plant geneticists are determined to create them anyway.
The Very Hungry Caterpillars That Turned to Cannibalism - With no food other than tomato plants that had been induced to use chemical defenses, scientists found that caterpillars ate each other.

Seven complete specimens of new flower, all 100 million years old - A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex bulling its way through a pine forest likely dislodged flowers that 100 million years later have been identified in their fossilized form as a new species of tree.
Probiotics help poplar trees clean up contaminated groundwater - Researchers have conducted the first large-scale experiment on a Superfund site using poplar trees fortified with a probiotic -- or natural microbe -- to clean up groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE.
The only way is up: Trees help reptiles thrive - If graziers leave trees in place on their land, all types of reptiles will benefit, investigators suggest in a new report.

Excitement as UK Government unveils plans for microbeads ban - Fauna & Flora International and partners in the microbeads coalition react to the news and share their thoughts on the next steps.
Don’t miss out: rare opportunity to help name a species - A special opportunity to help name a gecko or one of three unusual snails is up for grabs through a charity auction in support of Fauna & Flora International.
New UNESCO Biosphere Reserve declared at Myanmar’s Lake Indawgyi - One of Fauna & Flora International’s project sites in Myanmar has just been designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, an exciting development that will ensure that the lake is sustainably managed for both people and biodiversity.