Pollination syndrome: Difference between revisions

[[Beetle]]-pollinated flowers are usually large, greenish or off-white in color and heavily scented. Scents may be spicy, fruity, or similar to decaying organic material. Most beetle-pollinated flowers are flattened or dish shaped, with pollen easily accessible, although they may include traps to keep the beetle longer. The plant's ovaries are usually well protected from the biting mouthparts of their pollinators.<ref name="Gullan2005">{{cite book |author1=P.J. Gullan |author2=P.S. Cranston |lastauthoramp=yes |year=2005 |title=The Insects: An Outline of Entomology |publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781405111133/page/282 282] |isbn=978-1-4051-1113-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781405111133/page/282 }}</ref> A number of cantharophilous plants are [[Thermogenic plant|thermogenic]], with flowers that can increase their temperature. This heat is thought to help further spread the scent, but the [[infrared]] light produced by this heat may also be visible to insects during the dark night, and act as a shining beacon to attract them.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Korotkova |first=Nadja |last2=Barthlott |first2=Wilhelm |date=November 2009 |title=On the thermogenesis of the Titan arum (''Amorphophallus titanum'') |url= |journal=Plant Signalling and Behaviour |volume=4 |issue=11 |pages=1096–1098 |doi=10.4161/psb.4.11.9872 |pmc=PMC2819525 |pmid=19838070}}</ref>