Re: Glandular flower stalks

From: Paul Burkhardt (burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 11 1997 - 10:35:21 PDT

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 12:35:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Burkhardt <burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Glandular flower stalks

Hi Jan and list,

> No, not *all* potential pollinators. The creatures that get trapped
> are only those which try to *crawl* up the stalk, so they would
> pollinate all the flowers of one inflorescence (one individual, i.e.
> self the plant) first before they would visit another individual.
<snip>
> Effective pollinators (which change the inflorescence, i.e.
> the individuals visited more frequently) approach the flowers
> by air (butterflies, bees, flies), so they will not be trapped.

Ah, yes. My perplexity has been dissolved. These plants never cease to
amaze me, as does nature on the whole. Thanks.

Paul Burkhardt

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