Two flowers of a bucket orchid, Coryanthes speciosa

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Two flowers of a bucket orchid, Coryanthes speciosa. Orchids of the genus Coryanthes emit a pheromone that attracts male euglossine bees. The bees fall into the "bucket" of the orchid and pick up pollinia (pollen packets) in their effort to escape. On a visit to a second orchid, the bee will deposit the pollinia, thereby pollinating the second orchid. Greenhouse specimen.

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Size: 4925px × 3415px
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Photo credit: © Custom Life Science Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: asparagales, background, black, bloom, blooms, botany, bucket, coevolution, coryanthes, crths, flower, flowers, islc, liliopsida, magnoliophyta, maxillarieae, monocot, monocots, orchid, orchidaceae, plain, plant, plants, speciosa, stanhopeinae