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Those flowers are pollinated by flies, which are attracted to the smell of rotting meat. Yuck.
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∙ 6y agoTo attract flies (as pollinators).
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What helps to pollinate flowers that do not have bright colours and sweet smell?
Flowers that smell like rotting meat rely on carrion flies for pollination. They pollinate as it normally does but instead of pollinators or insects to help it pollinate, other resources like wind, help the pollen get around easily due to is light weight
What is a Stapelia plant?
The stapelia plant is a plant of the tropical jungle which looks and smells like rotting meat.
Why do many plants of specialized cells that produce strong odors?
To attract insects
Why are some flowers fragrant and others odorless?
The scent produce by flowers is actually used to attract pollinators. For scented plants, these are usually insects as most birds (there are a few exceptions) don't really have a sense of smell. Flowers produce chemicals which emanate into the air, some scientists think it help attract pollinating insects and even food for some, but be aware much of the information is conjecture, there is very little information on this subject, at best it sounds reasonable. The primary reason flowers have scent is to attract pollinators. These insects spread the flower's pollen and the flower can fulfill its purpose, which is reproduction. Usually these scents are also pleasant to a human's sense of smell but not always. Over the centuries, flowers have specialized their scent to attract certain insects and repel others. For example, the Rafflesia and the North American paw paw smell like rotting meat to attract flies, which will then spread the flower's pollen and aid in reproduction. The essential oils, or aromatic compounds, found in flowers produce scent. These oils are a combination of chemical acids and alcohol. The amount and ratio of oil and alcohol gives flower their individual fragrances.
The idea that maggots were produced by rotting meat is an example of what theory?
Spontaneous generation- which is an idea or theory that someone had which is compleatly and compentanly obserd
What flower smells like skunk smell?
Skunk cabbage flowers smell much like rotting meat or skunk smell. Other foul smelling flowers are crown imperials and roadkill skunk.
What other flowers smell of rotting meat?
another type is titan arum
What helps to pollinate flowers that do not have bright colours and sweet smell?
Flowers that smell like rotting meat rely on carrion flies for pollination. They pollinate as it normally does but instead of pollinators or insects to help it pollinate, other resources like wind, help the pollen get around easily due to is light weight
Why do flowers smell like rotten meat?
That they need to attract pollinating beetles or flieswith this particular scent is why certain flowers smell like rotten meat.
Is rafflesia smelly?
A Rafflesia emits a smell like rotting meat to attract flies and carrion beetles to pollinates it. The rotten smell of the flower is due to the reddish tentacle-like, branched ramentae, inside the corolla of petals.
What does the smell of a Carrion flower do for it?
Carrion flowers are pollenated by flies and other insects that are attracted to rotting meat. So the plant shares its pollen.
Is a smell of rotting meat a sign of a sinus or tooth infection?
tooth
What does blowfly eat?
Flowers with a strong odor attract adult blowflies. The odor has to be like rotting meat. Some examples are the pawpaw in America or the Dead Horse Arum. The maggots eat carrion or rotting meat. They will eat anything that's smells like flesh or dead meat
Why flowers have sweet scent?
The ones that do are trying to attract insects that like sweets. (Note ... some flowers smell like dead meat.)
Did Hurricane Katrina have any smell?
The storm itself was just humid, not really a smell. BUT the smell returning home was the worst smell I have ever smelt it was the smell of rotting meat, trash, rotting seafood, and much more. The refrigerators sat in front every house as the rotting food continued to sit in it. The smell was unbearable.
What is a sentence using the word fetid?
The fetid smell of rotting garbage filled the alleyway, causing people to hold their noses as they passed by.
What three things did people use to stop the smell of rotting meat in Shakespeare's time?
cheeses, apples and strands of hair
