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Pelargonium alchemilloides flower

Pelargonium alchemilloides flower
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In this Pelargonium alchemilloides flower the short white strings bending down and seldom noticed are filaments lacking anthers, staminodes. Above them the three pinkish stubs in the flower centre are anthers at the tips of their filaments; missing on the bare white staminodes (sterile stamens) below. Pelargonium flowers are endowed with ten filaments of which two to seven bear anthers, enough for propagation purposes.

The nectar of a Pelargonium flower is another detail often passing people by. It is produced by a gland in the calyx and stored in a hollow spur at the back of the upper sepal, on top of the pedicel or flower stalk (Manning, 2009; Wikipedia; Stoneman,1928).

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