23 September 2023
Ultimate Wednesday I watched a huge chippie bee sipping from passionflowers at Phipps Conservatory’s outside lawn.
The passionflower’s nectar deal with is immediately underneath its overhanging anthers and stigmas. On Wednesday the anthers had been in place to the touch the bushy spot at the bee’s again. The stigmas had been too prime to the touch the bee.
Later, the anthers and stigmas will business positions. The anthers will pull again. The stigmas that accumulate pollen for the ovary will contact the bee.
This picture embedded from College of Florida, IFAS: The Pastime Fruit in Florida presentations the way it works.
Passionflowers (Passiflora incarnata) have many lures to draw the huge bugs that pollinate them.
“Hello, bees! ” say the passionflowers, “Come right here!”
Learn extra about passionflowers and their fruit at Univ. of Florida IFAS: The Pastime Fruit in Florida
(picture credit within the captions)