The precise colouration of red flowers differs according to where they are and what they interact with.
Tag - floral colour
Liam Elliott
Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities
Pollinator-mediated interactions between plant species may affect the composition of angiosperm communities. Floral colour signals should play a role in these interactions, but the role will arise from the visual...
Alex Assiry
An approach to determining anthocyanin synthesis enzyme gene expression in an evolutionary context
Floral colour in angiosperms can be controlled by variations in the expression of the genes of the anthocyanin pathway. Floral colour shifts influence pollinator specificity. Multiple shifts in floral colour occurred in...
Plants with similar colours attract different pollinators
Different pollinator groups (bees, ants, wasps, flies, beetles and butterflies) preferentially visit flowers of certain colours. Interestingly, these colour preferences match the predictions of the pollination syndrome...
botanyone
Floral colour evolution in Nicotiana polyploids
Do floral colour shifts accompany allopolyploidy (interspecific hybridization and genome multiplication) in the genus Nicotiana (Solanaceae)?
Floral adaptation to pollinator guilds in Switzerland
Pollinator-driven speciation week continues, with Floral adaptation to local pollinator guilds in a terrestrial orchid, a paper by Sun, Gross and Schiestl. The star is the orchid Gymnadenia odoratissima, and orchid...
Alun Salt