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Ixia viridiflora
Plant... have no scent or odour, and produce little or no nectar. The beetles visit the flowers to eat the pollen and whatever little nectar is produced, to compete for mates and to copulate. The ... There are species with narrow tubular flowers and ample nectar that are pollinated by long-proboscid flies, and a few ...
... are whitish-cream, mauve, pink, purple or pale with yellow nectar guides; the calyx is sub-equally lobed with the lobes ... climb down into the flower to reach and extract the sweet nectar at the base of the ovary. During this stage, the ... vexillata var. vexillata flower showing the yellowish nectar guides on the standard petal, twisted keel beak and ...
Leonotis leonurus
Plant... with multiple ball-shaped inflorescences which bear the nectar-rich bright orange flowers which protrude from the ... support this type of pollinator. The flowers contain sweet nectar that attract many nectivorous birds such as sunbirds ... shape of these flowers due to co-evolution. However the nectar and pollen is also attractive to honey bees and other ...
Watsonia tabularis
Plant... behind Simonstown! Watsonia tabularis is pollinated by nectar-feeding birds. We know this because the flowers have ... the birds to see. They produce copious amounts of dilute nectar. The flower stem is sturdy enough to take the bird’s ... bird probes with its beak into the flower to reach the nectar at the base of the flower tube, its face or the top of ...
... ( Trichostetha fascicularis ). Sugarbirds feed on the nectar produced by the flower - it is found in the perianth ... push their head and beak through the styles to reach the nectar. While doing this, the pollen on the pollen presenter ... Protea beetles also visit protea flowers to feed on the nectar. It is large enough to brush pollen onto its body and ...
... conspicuous orange-coloured rim, and produces a droplet of nectar (extra-floral nectaries). The flowers are solitary and ... mature leaves have a conspicuous orange-coloured margin. Nectar glands are usually associated with flowers, however in ... case they have a different purpose. The glands provide nectar to local ants in return for protection of the flowers ...
Aloe castanea
Plant... brown, cup-shaped flowers that produce copious dark brown nectar. Usually producing 1 to 5 flower heads per rosette and ... to early spring (August); the flowers are rich in nectar and are visited by many insects, including honey bees, and nectar-feeding birds, such as sunbirds, which depend on this ...
Halleria lucida
Plant... are tubular, orange to brick-red, or yellow, very rich in nectar and are produced in clusters in the axils of leaves ... black flakes in the jelly-like flesh of the fruit. The nectar-rich flowers attract sunbirds and other nectar-feeding birds that pollinate the flowers. Bees and ...
Protea coronata
Plant... including the protea beetle. The birds feed on the nectar while the insects come in search of nectar and pollen. Only the sugarbird and the protea beetle are the pollinators. Nectar is found at the base of each flower. To get to it, the ...
Erythrina afra
Plant... it is only their colour, in combination with the reward of nectar which is produced in abundance, which attracts ... sp.), Orioles ( Orioles sp.), and many others feed on the nectar and red blossoms and can be seen by the hundreds ... be a strategy for visible advertising to attract as many nectar-feeding birds as possible. The shape and design of ...