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Shooting Star
- Thread starter Jaime Johnson
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
What a surprising flower. I, at first, thought the flower was being held by hand and had fallen. Then I recognized the form!
This and the related primrose are so well adapted to pollination by bees.
"The stamens are thrust out with the sepals bent back. The flowers are pollinated by bees, which grab hold of the petals, and gather pollen by vibrating the flowers by buzzing their wings ('buzz pollination'). The vibration releases pollen from the anthers." Source
Otherwise this is the weirdest flower and immodest!
Asher
Jaime Johnson
New member
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These two are far more special, (stems not noticeable), floating like some fanciful hot air balloons!
Asher