The hardy fuchsia is adapted for hummingbird pollination in a variety of ways. The bird is drawn to its red sepals, and the positioning of its pendulous flowers allows the bird, which can consume ...

Pollination takes place when pollen lands ... Most plants have flowers with the male and female parts present in each flower. Mostly, plants rely on insects, such as bees, to take the pollen ...

Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique ...

This will start a new plant. Ivy: So it can create new plants on its own? You're exploding my mind. This film explores the process of pollination and the roles different parts of a plant play.

It's called buzz pollination, and it works like a charm ... Match the right animal and plant parts—long tongue poked into narrow tube, furry face pressed into sticky brush—and pollen is ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure ...

Even if gardeners attempt to help with pollination, the pollen will struggle to stick to the plant’s female parts if it gets too dry. It is not just warmth that can hinder fruiting, as tomato ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...