Plants can help purify the air and create a soothing environment; these house plants can help promote better sleep quality.

While many flowering plants open their blooms during daylight hours and close for the nighttime, others follow the reverse ...

Maybe you already know about the night-blooming cereus, a cactus that usually lives up to its name by blooming only after ...

Flowering plants represent about one-sixth of all ... While scentless by day, the orchid flower becomes fragrant at night, attracting this nocturnal pollinator. Hint: Only a very specialized ...

This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine ...

Some moths only come out at night, seeking nectar from night-flowering plants. If you want to see them, you’ll need to go to the places where they’re feeding, such as parks, gardens or canals. Once ...

Plants hide their sweet nectar deep in the flower so that a pollinator must crawl through an obstacle course to find it. Night-blooming plants smell strongest at night. They use their strong scent ...

Orchids are a beautiful and exotic houseplant but they can be difficult to encourage to bloom multiple times - but it turns ...

Maybe you already know about the night-blooming cereus, a cactus that usually lives up to its name by blooming only after dark. Often, the plants bloom only once a year, another oddity that ...