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    The document discusses various plant adaptations for pollination including visual and olfactory cues to attract pollinators as well as nectar and pollen rewards. It provides examples of plants with different pollination mechanisms including wind pollination, bird pollination, and pollination by insects like bees and beetles.

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    The document discusses various plant adaptations for pollination including visual and olfactory cues to attract pollinators as well as nectar and pollen rewards. It provides examples of plants with different pollination mechanisms including wind pollination, bird pollination, and pollination by insects like bees and beetles.

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    The document discusses various plant adaptations for pollination including visual and olfactory cues to attract pollinators as well as nectar and pollen rewards. It provides examples of plants with different pollination mechanisms including wind pollination, bird pollination, and pollination by insects like bees and beetles.

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    Review of Flower Formula:

    Crassula argentea - the jade plant


    Ranunculus - buttercup

    Review:
    What is the flower formula?
    Lilium tigrinum - tiger lily
    What is the flower formula
    for this plant?
    The strange lateral buds are called bulbils.
    These are shed as a means of vegetative
    propagation
    Adaptations for Pollination
    Attraction
    Visual Cues: Color, Shape, Size
    Olfactory Cues: Scent, Odor

    Reward
    Nectar: Sucrose, Water, Amino Acids
    Pollen: Vitamins, Minerals, Protein
    Behavior: Recreational Motivation!
    Attraction: Visual Bulls Eye

    Hemerocallis - day lily


    Rudbeckia hirta - black-eyed Susan
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    Gaillardia grandiflora - Indian blanket flower

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    Nectar
    Guides

    Nice scent too!


    Osmophores: release scent as
    alternate attractant

    Sometimes the scent is the reward


    A behavioral reward!
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    http://guenther.blaich.bei.t-online.de/argoins.htm

    Ophrys insectifera with pollinator Argogorytes mystaceus


    Bergstrm, G. (1978) Role of volatile chemicals in Ophrys-pollinator interactions In Biochemical Aspects of
    Plant and Animal Coevolution (J. B. Harborne, ed.), Academic Press, London.
    Beetles as pollinators: lousy flight accuracy, heavy feeding
    Target is large
    Alternate entry
    Heavy flower parts
    Pollen load is heavy

    Fantasy Island
    Or
    Nightmare Island?
    Hovering Birds and Sequence!

    Perching Birds
    Same Sequence
    Stiff-Leaf Perches!
    Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
    Asclepias - Milkweed and Monarchs
    Kalmia - mountain laurel
    Nectar spur: a pouch containing
    phloem exudate
    Darwin described an orchid,
    Angraecum sesquipedale from
    Madagascar with an 11.5-inch
    nectar spur!
    He predicted that there would be
    a pollinating animal with 11.5-in
    mouthparts to drink the nectar,
    but never found the animal.

    http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cryptozoo/dossiers/xanthopan.jpg
    Much later (1903), Xanthopan
    morgani predicta, its pollinator
    was found with an 11.5-inch
    siphon!
    Wind Pollination: Corn (Zea mays)
    Male flowers in the tassel

    Huge numbers of small, dry pollen


    grains, shed from high on plant.
    Perianth small, greenish, no nectar
    Female flowers in ear
    Long, sticky, hairy stigmas = silk
    Ross Rogues Gallery

    Flowers that Horticulture has turned


    into what I consider to be hideous
    monsters!
    Dianthus caryophyllus - carnation
    Rosa floribunda - rose
    Malus domestica - apple
    Gaillardia grandiflora -
    Indian blanket flower
    Hemerocallis - daylily

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