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History of flowers slowly unfolds

New DNA and fossil research sheds light on what Darwin called ‘an abominable mystery’

Throughout his life, Charles Darwin surrounded himself with flowers. When he was 10, he wrote down each time a peony bloomed in his father’s garden. When he bought a house to raise his own family, he turned the grounds into a botanical field station. But despite his intimate familiarity with....

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