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Category:
Flower Articles/Gardening
... plants grow pollen sacks which impregnate the female plants, creating seeds. Unless you want seeds for future grows it is important to pick out the male plants as soon as they show signs. ...
Thursday, 13 August 2009
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Category:
Flower Articles/Flowers
... the favor by transferring their pollen as they took pains to arrange matters. Nectar and tiny insects he is ever seeking. Of course hundreds of flowers secrete nectar which taxes them little; and while ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Flower Articles/Flowers
... upward so brightly from among the grass it cannot well be overlooked. Sitting in a meadow sprinkled over with these yellow stars, we see coming to them many small bees - chiefly Halictus - to gather pollen ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Category:
Flower Articles/Flowers
... our area, of course have tongues of various lengths, and naturally every visitor does not receive his load of pollen on the same identical spot. At dusk, when sphinx moths begin their rounds, it will be ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Flower Articles/Flowers
... pollen, which is, of course, the desideratum." How the moth, in sipping the nectar, thrusts his head against the sticky buttons to which the pollen messes are attached, and, in trying to release himself, ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Flower Articles/Flowers
... transfer their pollen. All too soon after fertilization the now useless petals fall, leaving the pretty urn-shaped calyx, with the large yellow protruding stamens, far more conspicuous than some flowers. ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Category:
Flower Articles/Flowers
... more elaborate and ingenious mechanism to compel insects to transfer their pollen than this. The fissure down the front of the pink lady's slipper is not so wide but that a bee ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Category:
Flower Articles/Flowers
... by carrying some of the pollen lunch on their heads from the older to the younger flowers, which mature stigmas first. But saucy bumblebees, undutiful pilferers from the purple avens, rarely visit blossoms ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Category:
Flower Articles/Flowers
... pollen grains of different size and value. Whenever the stigma is high, the two sets of stamens keep out of its way by occupying the lowest and middle positions, or just where the stigmas occur in the ...
Friday, 22 May 2009
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Category:
News/News
... organ, including an ovary, clustered around which are the male organs of stamens. These produce the familiar yellow "dust" which is the male fertilizing pollen. This, at the proper time, must be deposited ...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009