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It depends on the type of flower but most are fertilized by insects.

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What insect fertilizes the flowers that grow on cacao tree trunks?

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Do underground stem contains seed?

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Where do pollinated flowers come from?

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What is the ovule in a plant?

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Do flowers fertilized them selves?

If not for the rain and the sun and the worms in the soil I don't think plants could survive for very long


After flowers are pollinated what do they become?

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