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... are attracted from a distance by the scent of the nectar. Sometimes the scent is sweet, but mostly ...
Ceropegia sandersonii
Plant... are attracted from a distance by the odour or the nectar, sometimes sweet but usually putrid smelling. Once in ...
... showing the inner and outer corona lobes that secrete nectar to keep possible pollinators alive while temporarily ... indoor plant that can be grown on a sunny window sill. In strong light the leaves will be darkly coloured, with ...
Kniphofia northiae
Plant... perianth that serves as a great reservoir for plentiful nectar, complying with the bird pollination pattern. Furthermore, the drying perianth tube acts as a nectar guide, transporting nectar from the ovary to the apex, where it gathers in a ...
Gonialoe genus
Plant... are used to attract pollinators, which are rewarded with nectar and pollen. The most likely pollinators of these small aloes include sunbirds, and nectar and pollen collecting insects. These well-camouflaged ...
... 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 ...
... becoming 5–8 mm long, whitish, densely papillate. The nectar glands dark green and in a marginal ring. The capsule ... easily grown in containers or hanging baskets but best in strong light. Snails and tiger moth caterpillars can be a ...
Cotyledon tanquana
Plant... oblong, 2 × 1 mm, which is a unique feature. Squamae are nectar glands at the base of the floral tube. Most parts of ...
Hibiscus waterbergensis
Plant... where the corolla is fused to the calyx, and access to the nectar is permitted to a pollinator probing the centre of the ... extrafloral nectaries within the same species. Extrafloral nectar such as that produced in H . waterbergensis has also ...
Clutia pulchella
Plant... to their inconspicuous flowers that lack showy petals or nectar they primarily rely on wind for pollination ...