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Title <em>Hydnora africana</em> Author Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA Keywords Hydnora africana Description Hydnora africana 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. Return to the Hydnora africana [1] page or the Parasitic Plant Index [2]. Publisher Botanical Society of America Additional data copyright: Carlquist, BSA license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license Collection Parasitic Plants Botanical Name <em>Hydnora africana</em> Categories Image Not a cover image

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