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Incense Pollen

MissSherry
16 years ago

I've been reading my two new passionflower books nightly, and in the section about hybridization, it says that hybrids will usually make little if any pollen - if the parent plants are closely related, that may not be so. Anyway, I've seen some discussions on this forum about various passionvines making fruit and how rarely Incense makes one. A huge bee has been on my Incense flowers for quite a while, and I got this picture of it -

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You can see the pollen all over its back and legs. It keeps going round and round, I assume to access the floral nectary of each flower. If my Incense flowers don't make fruit now, they never will! :)

Sherry

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