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Disa graminifolia
Plant... emits a delightful fragrance, reminiscent of sweet nectar, which serves to attract potential pollinators. Among ... blue hues of the orchid’s blooms. While searching for nectar the bee pushes against the column and the pollinaria ... its thorax. However, it mistakes the flowers for a viable nectar source, because they don’t produce any nectar, and ...
Halleria elliptica
Plant... submerged in the jelly-like flesh of the fruit. Rich in nectar, it attracts insects, particularly bees and butterflies. It is also alluring to a wide variety of nectar-loving and fruit- and insect-eating birds, who adore the volume of nectar it produces and the delicious fruit. Children also ...
Moraea worcesterensis
Plant... flowers have yellow stamens and diamond-shaped nectar guide markings on the inner and outer tepals. The ... Moraea has a typical Homeria -type flower that produces nectar at the base of the tepal whorls. When observed closely it appears that nectar is only produced on the outer tepals in this moraea. ...
Watsonia lepida
Plant... Philoliche aethiopica . The watsonia flowers produce nectar and the long-tongued flies visit open flowers to collect the nectar, transferring pollen from one flower to another in the ... process. The Disa pulchra flowers however do not produce nectar, it mimics the watsonia in order to trick the ...
Salvia aurea
Plant... to one's garden. The flowers contain a lot of sweet nectar which attracts bees and moths, and acts as an ... insect crawls in at the mouth of the flower, looking for nectar in the flower base, its head pushes against a sterile ... are too big for a bee, so that when a bee feeds on the nectar the stamens do not touch its back. This is because ...
Lobelia valida
Plant... blotch of bright yellow at the centre, clearly guiding the nectar-feeding fly, which pollinates the flowers. These long ... specially adapted with long sucking mouthparts to collect nectar hidden at the base of a deep tube. The best time to ... blotch of bright yellow at the centre, clearly guiding the nectar-feeding fly, which pollinates the flowers. These long ...
Schotia capitata
Plant... small lateral branches. S. capitata unveils brilliant red, nectar-rich flowers on a tiny pedicel, sometimes sessile , ... to Nov.). The flowers are scarlet and attractive, rich in nectar and are visited by a wide variety of nectar-feeding birds, bees and insects. S. capitata is also a ...
Satyrium rhodanthum
Plant... threadlike, hollow extension of the perianth that contains nectar) are present and bent abruptly downwards. The spurs ... odourless nature and high concentrations of diluted nectar. Satyrium rhodanthum has an extended nectar tube which enables the birds to extract nectar with ...
Moraea aristata
Plant... marked at their bases with iridescent light to dark blue nectar guides or eyes resembling those that adorn the tips of ... The beetles are attracted to the striking blue nectar guides located near the base of the three broad outer tepals. The beetles feed on the nectar and pollen, and in so doing, pollen is deposited onto ...
Watsonia pillansii
Plant... brown at the apex. The flowers are unscented and produce nectar. Flowering time is in summer, from December to ... are held up high on a sturdy stalk and produce lots of nectar, which indicate that they are pollinated by nectar-feeding birds such as sunbirds, although at ...