Certain Australian native flowers have evolved their flower colour to red hues favoured by birds

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 09:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org)—In a study just published in New Phytologist, researchers from RMIT and Monash universities have shown for the first time that Australian native flowers exclusively pollinated by birds have evolved colour spectral signatures that are best discriminated by those birds.

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