Aiki_Joker
Shohin
Is this a mutation due to years of propagation? Surely in the wild this would jot be advantageous for the gene pool? Self fertile plants appear to have a slightly different flower morphology that allows them to fertilise themselves. But that is all.
I noticed the longer stamens or shorter stigma allows the flower on this calomondin to pollinate itself automatically. Pollen from the anthers is automatically transferred to the lower stigma! Brilliant for guaranteed fruit!
I was looking at a lilly the other day and I noticed that some flowers that people keep in vases and want to last a long time seem to have the opposite.
This way, the flower has minimal chance of fertilising itself and lasts longer (when a flower is fertilised it will die off once the pollen has grown down the anther and fertilised the ovule).
Does anyone know for sure if this is a procdure that growers go through, or is it just serendipity?
I noticed the longer stamens or shorter stigma allows the flower on this calomondin to pollinate itself automatically. Pollen from the anthers is automatically transferred to the lower stigma! Brilliant for guaranteed fruit!
I was looking at a lilly the other day and I noticed that some flowers that people keep in vases and want to last a long time seem to have the opposite.
This way, the flower has minimal chance of fertilising itself and lasts longer (when a flower is fertilised it will die off once the pollen has grown down the anther and fertilised the ovule).
Does anyone know for sure if this is a procdure that growers go through, or is it just serendipity?