Dense bunches of pollen grains cling to each other in gnarled clumps. Sometime between 70 and 100 million years ago the number of flowering plant species on Earth exploded, an event botanists ...

Flowering plants represent about one-sixth ... Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one flower to another, where fertilization takes place. Below, match seven ...

As they skitter around the bottom of the flower, pollen falls onto them from the ... The last scent to hit your nose before the flowering structure collapses after a few days is trimethylamine.

Unlike the heavy, sticky pollen of flowering plants like roses-which are pollinated by insects-allergy-triggering pollen is small, light and airborne, making it able to travel long distances.

A Balanophora subcupularis inflorescence (a cluster of flowers) is pollinated by an ant seeking the plant’s pollen and nectar. Ants have not typically been considered effective pollinators ...

For some gymnosperms called cycads, insects serve as their pollen shuttle service, and did so long before flowering plants needed bees and butterflies for pollination. The discovery, published today ...

Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the flower. Plants have eggs just like animals and these come from the female part of the flower. Some plants reproduce by ...

Pollen produced by a flower is carried by insects ... These are called non-flowering plants. Ferns and mosses are examples of plants which do not produce flowers. They grow from spores instead ...

and animals—carry pollen from one flower to another, where fertilization takes place. In this game, match seven plants with their pollinators and learn some of the reasons why flowering plants ...