Scientists find unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity

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By hand pollinating the rare vine Austrobaileya whose flower is seen here University of Tennessee Knoxville researcher Joe Williams uncovered new information about the origins of flowering plants incredible diversity. Image: Joe WilliamsUniversity of ...
By hand pollinating the rare vine Austrobaileya, whose flower is seen here, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researcher Joe Williams uncovered new information about the origins of flowering plants' incredible diversity. Image: Joe Williams/University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia.


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