Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The Pollination Process Of Flowering Plants

The growth of attractive flowering plants are used to attract pollinators including insects(entomophily), birds(ornithophily) or animals (entomophily) to start the pollination process that leads to reproduction. Other options for pollination, are wind (anemophily) and water (hydrophily).

The beautiful colors and shapes of blooming flowers, along with their lovely fragrances have been admired for centuries all over the world. Flower arrangements and a gift of flowers, are rather popular, especially for weddings and St Valentines Day. Other flowers are edible and used in salads, create vinegar and in salad dressings.

The main purpose of most flowers is to serve as a starting point for the process of fertilization. Some flowers, such as grasses, which are seen as large flat low-lying plants are pollinated by the wind, and they do not need to attract biotic pollinators and therefore appear rather bland.

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