With over 28000 species of orchid, it seems like there's an orchid for every niche. The Dracula orchid's niche is mimicking a mushroom.
Tag - fly pollination
Alun Salt
The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in the Apocynaceae
Interactions between flowering plants and their pollinators are known to be responsible for part of the tremendous diversity of the angiosperms, currently thought to number at least 350,000 species. Using a new database...
Alex Assiry
How do pollinators paint the landscape with colour?
When you look at a patch of flowers, you often see clusters of colour. Even when a single species can have many different colours, you get patches. Why? How does a plant know to grow with this colour and not that colour...
Fi Gennu