A rare plant found on Thailand's highest mountain courts an unusual pollinator.
Tag - pollinator
Alun Salt
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.
Erin Zimmerman
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.
Liam Elliott
In Lomatia, the pollen is naturally poisoned
Lomatia stores the ingredients for cyanide, somewhere in its flowers.
Fi Gennu
Botanists find out who’s the daddy
Growing a fruit is only one way of passing your genes on to the next generation if you’re a plant. You could also send pollen to another plant. But what factors influence siring success? Dorothy Christopher and...
Male reproductive success and floral trait evolution in animal-pollinated plants
More than 85% of flowering plant species require the services of foraging animal pollinators to transfer male gametes (pollen) to stigmas of potential mates. The vast majority (95-99%) of pollen grains produced by a...
Alex Assiry
