Eighty percent of plants rely on animal pollinators while other pollination is through water and wind. Selfing flowers have ...

While many trees are assisted by pollinators like bees and butterflies, some trees are self-pollinating - this includes pomegranate trees. But, what exactly does this mean? And what do you need to ...

"The movement of the stigma appendage represents, to the best of our knowledge, a novel self-pollination mechanism in orchids," the Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji writes in his paper now ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain ...

These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name — revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure reproduction.

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 ...