Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
00:00
Orchids of the Prairies
Andrina and Halik distribe, the flower is evidently best adapted. The smallest bees can squeeze through the passage without paying toll. Some orchids look to imaginative eyes as if they were masquerading in the disguise of bees, moths, frogs, birds, butterflies. Spring traps, adhesive plasters, and hair triggers attached to explosive shells of pollen are among the many devices by which orchids compel insects to cross-fertilize them. No other blossoms can sew well afford to wear magenta, the ugly-shade nature produces.
Transcript
Play full episode
