Learn English: Flower Power: Pollen Delivery Surprises! (hard)

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Flower Power: Pollen Delivery Surprises!

Many flowers utilize ingenious methods to ensure successful pollination, employing surprising tactics to transfer pollen.

Some flowers, like Berberis and Mahonia, employ touch-sensitive stamens that aggressively dust pollen onto visiting insects.

Other species, such as Catasetum orchids, utilize even more dramatic methods, launching pollen packets with forceful precision.

Triggerplants showcase remarkable speed; their pollen-laden organs rapidly swing, coating insects in pollen for efficient cross-pollination.

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Original: The Guardian (Science)

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#pollination #plants #flowers #insects #biology

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