90 minutes of Aroids with Tom Croat
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The Evolution of Aerosimas Dioches
There's the female phase. Most aeroids have perfect flowers but their protogen is their pistilate. So those are the pollination droplets that you'd see on a stick. The little astigmatic droplets that are born on the tips of the stigmas. That stuff is sort of sweet and it may contain as many as three different types of sugars. And those sugars are attracting bees and the bees will create.
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