If you find yourself looking for some exotic, colorful plants for the summer shade garden, look no further than the Brazilian plume flower. It is so wonderful that it was once known botanically as ...

While most frogs eat a diet rich in insects, one species in Brazil has its own method of nourishment: dunking itself headfirst into a flower's bulb to slurp up its sweet nectar. When the frog comes up ...

American tourists arriving in Brazil must still be photographed and fingerprinted, but those who enter through Rio de Janeiro are getting flowers, jewelry and T-shirts along with the red tape. "This ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Macy's is putting a new twist on the urban jungle for this year's annual flower show. The sounds of waterfalls and tropical birds drown out the rumble of subway trains and car ...

Plants in the Brazilian savanna, the Cerrado, have evolved to deal with fire. When fire is used intelligently as part of a carefully planned land management method, it is indispensable to the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to access nectar. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to ...