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The orchid lures the flies into its carrion-scented boosom so the fly can pick up pollen and deposit it on other flowers.

Orchid Does a Great Roadkill Imitation to Lure Flies

By Jennifer Welsh published

The orchids trick the flesh flies into pollinating them by smelling like rotting flesh.

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Flower of Petunia inflata, a wild species of garden petunia. Most flowering plants produce flowers with the male and female reproductive organs located in the same flower. However, many of them, including Petunia inflata, possess a reproductive trait call

ScienceLives: How Flowering Plants Prevent Inbreeding

By Teh-hui Kao published

Teh-hui Kao, who studies how plants prevent inbreeding, answers the ScienceLives questions

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New Dandelion Species Found in Spain

By Live Science Staff published

Species discovery is surprise in well-studied Iberian Peninsula.

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Stop and Frisk the Roses: Customs Agents Eye Valentines Flowers for Pests

By Brett Israel published

Bouquets can bring unwanted pests and disease.

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Hold Your Nose: 7 Foul Flowers

By Brett Israel published

These stinkers will make your stomach turn.

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At Kew Gardens, A Corpse Flowers Blooms

By Brett Israel published

Giant flower stinks up the joint.

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Kew Gardens Corpse Flower Set to Blow

By Brett Israel published

Flower dazzles while rotten flesh smell repulses.

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Flowers' Stripes Serve as Bees' Landing Strips

By Live Science Staff published

Snapdragons with stripes get most attention from bees.

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Daisy's Sexy Spots Drive a Fly into Frenzy of Pollination

By Rebecca Kessler published

Sex-crazed flies mate with flowers.

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Hold Your Nose! Corpse Flower Drops a Stink Bomb

By Brett Israel published

Rotten flesh smell lingers at Binghamton University greenhouse.

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