Flowers

Flowers

Many seed plants produce flowers with bright colours, perfume and nectar in order to attract insects that will transport their pollen grains to the female parts of another flower. Some flowers have evolved to attract one particular insect pollinator. For example, one orchid looks like a female insect and thus lures the male insect who then carries the pollen directly to another orchid of the same species. Flowers of some Arum species actually produce heat and provide warmth and food for the beetles which pollinate them. [CH] {TP}