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 | | Image Title: Hydnora africana | | Image Credit: Sherwin Carlquist | | Intended End User: Teacher, Student | | License Details: BSA - Terms for Image Use | | Copyright held by: Carlquist, BSA | | For Larger Version (click here) | About the Image | The flower of Hydnora, when it first opens, has white threadlike structures that cross the gap between the "sepals." The openings between these threads are barely large enough for a beetle to enter. More about that later! Although a beetle may enter a flower, it evidently has difficulty in finding its way out of the flower. This keeps it inside a flower long enough so that the beetle can pick up pollen or deposit pollen on its surface onto the stigmas at the bottom of the floral tube.
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