How complicated and kludgy! You’d think an intelligent designer would have made the whole process unnecessary…
ikesolemsays
That pollen looks ideally positioned for a bee, wasp or other insect. It’s only if such an insect doesn’t show up that self-fertilization occurs. But did seeds develop?
I had this dream once where my back was really flexible…
Nicksays
Here’s a little party trick for the botanically obsessed (like me). Flick the little anther cap off of an orchid. A the base of the two pollinia (yes, they look like balls. Orchids were named after testicles, but not these ones. The bulbs of certain European terrestrial orchids have a striking resemblance to gonads. Orchis = (Greek or Latin – not sure) for testicles), there is a sticky pad. If you put this on you finger nail, within half an hour the orientation of the pollinia will have changed from being upright to being horizontal. Also, the area around the anther cap will darken within a day.
I was wondering what that deally on the tip was, when suddenly I saw the anther.
Probably some porn nearby…
Glen Davidson
Ban this sick filth now!
So what colors or smells would it use to attract itself?
Where’s Georgia O’Keefe when we need her, eh?
Go stipe your stigma?
And it does it without a magazine!
So, even flowers have webcams now?
I support this
Eek!! My Mimosa saw the pictures and went to it’s “happy place”
This is your typical overhyped research. The European orchid Ophrys apifera has long been known to do the same thing.
See here for example.
*faints*
Drosera:
Really.
Care to try to justify how a statement of fact constitutes over-hype?
(PS I doubt that typical means what you apparently think it means)
Something primates have been practicing for since before they came down from the trees!
(Come to think of it, it may have been the reason for many of them dropping from trees)
“So what colors or smells would it use to attract itself?”
Brown and beer farts seem to work for me…
Botanists use the word “self” as a verb, and can be aggitated into using that verb as a suggestion.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Scandalous! Won’t someone please think of the seedlings?!
@ John Morales,
Which part of the word ‘first’ don’t you understand?
How complicated and kludgy! You’d think an intelligent designer would have made the whole process unnecessary…
That pollen looks ideally positioned for a bee, wasp or other insect. It’s only if such an insect doesn’t show up that self-fertilization occurs. But did seeds develop?
I had this dream once where my back was really flexible…
Here’s a little party trick for the botanically obsessed (like me). Flick the little anther cap off of an orchid. A the base of the two pollinia (yes, they look like balls. Orchids were named after testicles, but not these ones. The bulbs of certain European terrestrial orchids have a striking resemblance to gonads. Orchis = (Greek or Latin – not sure) for testicles), there is a sticky pad. If you put this on you finger nail, within half an hour the orientation of the pollinia will have changed from being upright to being horizontal. Also, the area around the anther cap will darken within a day.
Nick: Greek.
No apomyxis for me!
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