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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: mark smyth on October 10, 2011, 05:51:15 PM

Title: The Weird Sex of Orchids
Post by: mark smyth on October 10, 2011, 05:51:15 PM

from yesterdays Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/09/orchid-sex-botany-ziegler-pollan (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/09/orchid-sex-botany-ziegler-pollan)

and a new book
Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deceptive-Beauties-World-Wild-Orchids/dp/0226982971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318265363&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deceptive-Beauties-World-Wild-Orchids/dp/0226982971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318265363&sr=8-1)

Title: Re: The Weird Sex of Orchids
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 11, 2011, 11:50:02 PM

Odd photo. Almost as if someone has deliberately stuck the pollinia onto the bee's bum. They should be on its head, unless, of course, it has reversed into the flower?