Are bright in colour
Produce sugary nectar
Are large in size
Have a scent
Hibiscus flowers are primarily insect-pollinated, relying on bees, butterflies, and other insects to transfer pollen between flowers for successful pollination. This is due to the structure of the flower, which is designed to attract and accommodate specific pollinators.
Flowers are structures on a type of plants called angiosperms, which usually exploit a strategy involving a flower, called biotic pollination which requires another organism (vector) typically, although not always, an insect. By contrast, abiotic pollinators like grasses and conifers would use other means like wind or rarely water to effect pollination. Biotic non-insect pollinators may rely on birds or bats for transport, but the great majority of pollen vectors are insects.
Nectar is produced by flowers to attract insects, bats or birds that will help to carry its pollen to other plants (and bring fresh pollen to it). If a plant is pollinated in the wind, then it doesn't need to spend the energy to make nectar.
Answer 1: If a bloom has large petals and sepals, it's much harder to pollinate the flower. They would just get in the way. Answer 2: Petals and sepals are used to attract pollinators and give them a place to land. Wind pollinated plants don't need to attract pollinators or provide landing space for them. Thus, there is no use for large sepals and petals. .
Most flowers rely on insects to transfer pollen from one flower to another. Bees do more pollination than any other insect. So if bees disappeared, a lot of plants would not be pollinated and would not produce any seed.
Without FlowersWithout flowers, the world would be less beautiful. More importantly, flowers are the part many garden plants, and other plants as well, where pollination occurs. If there were no flowers, there would be no beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, squash, and lots of other vegetables. Fruit trees also are pollinated through flowers, so without flowers, we would also have no apples, pears, oranges and other fruits.
The pollen grains of wind pollinated plants are generally smooth and light. These are not sticky to avoid clump-sing. These are produced in large numbers to ensure landing some pollen on the feathery or netted stigmas.
Plants pollinated by bats do not need colorful flowers because bats are usually active during the night and rely on their sense of smell and echolocation to locate flowers. These plants often have dull-colored flowers, but produce strong scents and nectar to attract bats for pollination. The lack of color is compensated by other attractants that appeal to bats' sensory preferences.
Yes, they each have their own special job that only they can do. For example, without bees, although they are pesky, there would be no pollinated flowers of honey.
Bees and plants have evolved together over the last 50 million years and they are quite interdependent. Bees get their food from the plants in the form of nectar and pollen, and in return the plants are pollinated by the bees. It has been estimated that some 80 per cent of all plants are insect pollinated, and that around 90 per cent of those plants are pollinated by bees. If the bees were to disappear this pollination would not take place, and without it the plants would not develop fruit and seeds for the next generation. Around one-third of all the food you eat is the result of the pollination of crops by bees. No bees, no food -- there would be widespread starvation. Add to that the number of flowers and other decorative plants that would die out and the world would be a far less beautiful place.
Pollination is crucial for flowers as it allows them to reproduce. Pollen from the male parts of a flower is transferred to the female parts, leading to the development of seeds. This process is important for genetic diversity and the continuation of plant species.
Grass has no nectar and all grasses are wind pollinated, so grass alone is of no use to bees. However, if the grassland had plenty of wild flowers the bees would do well there.