By Sharman Apt Russell
In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner lifestyles" of plants, displaying them to be extra person, extra enterprising, and extra responsive than we ever imagined. From their assorted fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, the place nature is worried, "wonder is not just our start line; it could even be our destination." all through this botanical trip, she unearths that the technological know-how in the back of those clever plants--how they developed, how they live to tell the tale, how they heal--is much more awe-inspiring than their fleeting attractiveness. Russell is helping us think what a box of snapdragons appears like to a honeybee; she introduces us to plants that keep watch over their very own temperature, allure pollinating bats, even odor like a rotting corpse.In this poetic rumination, which mixes swish writing with a scientist's readability, Russell brings jointly the paintings of botanists worldwide, and illuminates an international immediately primary and unique.
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This is particularly true in plants visited hy pollen-eating beetles. Bees, too, arc good at smelling and distinguishing different pollen I"rom different flowers. Perhaps the best image for the smell 01' pollen is the kind of hreakfast only ,I farm worker should havc: eggs, bacon, ham, cheese, potatoes, biscuits, and gravy. The steaming plate sends out a strong odor plume. SOME FLOWERS, In the sunflower 1110th, when virgin females are exposed to the odor of pollen, they begin signaling ror males earlier and spcnd more time signaling.
Read the sign, please. Don't wait to be seated. Dinner is this way. Different parts of a flower, differently colored, also reflect or absorb ultraviolet light. Some guide marks arc completely invisihle to the human eye. r feci the frisson of a parallel world: 1I0wers glowing in strange colors, flowers marked hy strange patterns. Briefly, r want to sec what the bee sees. Let me slip under the surface of this dream. Let me lift this veil bel'ore my eyes. arc about 120 million years old. Bees have heen around much longer than that, and hees prohahly had color vision long before the appearance of {-lowers.
Breeding with yourself is better than not breeding at all. At the last possihle minute, llllpollinated stigmas may bend down or around to contact their own anthers or to pick up pollen left on the style. A few specics have two different flowers, ones that cross-fertilize and ones that self-fertilize. In early spring, violets cover the vvoodland floor. ater, if a violet fails to get pollinated, the plant prodllces a second green bud that never opens and barely rises above the ground. Unseen, unnoticed, the bud fertilizes itself.