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Tag: pollinator

Close Encounters

Asian squirrels go nuts for nectar

A rare plant found on Thailand’s highest mountain courts an unusual pollinator.

by Alun SaltDecember 7, 2021December 7, 2021
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Close Encounters

Asymmetry allows divergent use of pollinators, but often represents a one-way evolutionary street

Changes in floral symmetry allow a single pollinator to be used differently by multiple species.

by Erin ZimmermanOctober 26, 2020October 26, 2020
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Close Encounters Growth & Development

Seeing red isn’t the same everywhere! How and why red flowers differ between locations.

The precise colouration of red flowers differs according to where they are and what they interact with.

by Liam ElliottJune 2, 2020June 2, 2020
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Growth & Development

In Lomatia, the pollen is naturally poisoned

Lomatia stores the ingredients for cyanide, somewhere in its flowers.

by Fi GennuApril 22, 2020April 21, 2020
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Growth & Development

Botanists find out who’s the daddy

by Fi GennuFebruary 27, 2020February 27, 2020
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Dimorphotheca pollen is deposited onto a fly Corsomyza as it probes a flower for nectar.
Annals of Botany News in Brief

Male reproductive success and floral trait evolution in animal-pollinated plants

by Alex AssiryDecember 10, 2018December 10, 2018
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    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

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    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

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