Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce?

Want to learn more? Here are some keywords to get your googling started:
- Pollination: the process by which pollen is transferred to the female reproductive organs of seed plants
- Pollinator: the agent that moves the pollen
- Abiotic pollination syndromes: wind pollination (anemophily) and water pollination (hydrophily)
- Self-pollination: when pollen from the same plant arrives at the stigma of a flower (in flowering plants) or at the ovule (in gymnosperms)
- Stamen: the male fertilizing organ of a flower, typically consisting of a pollen-containing anther and a filament.
- Carpel: The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style.
- Perfect flower: a flower that has both stamens and carpels. Also called bisexual, androgynous, hermaphroditic and monoclinous.
- Monoecious: having male and female reproductive structures in separate flowers on the same plant.
- Dioecious: having the male and female reproductive structures on separate plants.
- Nectar guides: markings or patterns seen in flowers of some angiosperm species that guide pollinators to their rewards.
- Some species featured in this video: common holly (Ilex aquifolium), stinking corpse lily (Rafflesia arnoldii), carrion fly (Calliphoridae), night blooming cereus, Massonia depressa, Symphyotrichum lanceolatum