Flowers

It’s been said that April showers bring May flowers, but here’s the thing, gang: we couldn’t wait a whole month to talk about the darn things! Stop and smell the roses with us as we sniff out some of the finest flower facts!

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[Fact Off]

Bubble gun pollination

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(20)30373-4

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/drone-delivered-soap-bubbles-could-help-pollinate-flowers

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubble-blowing-drones-may-one-day-aid-artificial-pollination

Fungus mimicking flowers

Image: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/1BF8FBA2-1A97-4962-BDF7425878CF9454_source.jpg

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184520301572

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2399434?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab21f9013c26e11394d09411860873d9f&seq=1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-flower-is-really-a-fungus-in-disguise/

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/insect-color-vision.php

[Ask the Science Couch]

Carnivorous plants flowering

Picture of pitcher plant: http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3639

Picture of venus fly trap: https://theconversation.com/friend-or-food-why-venus-flytraps-dont-eat-their-pollinators-91620

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161010-how-insect-eating-plants-persuade-insects-to-pollinate-them

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21065

[Butt One More Thing]

Dead horse lily

Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicodiceros#/media/File:Dracunculus_muscivorus.jpg

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00802.x

https://theconversation.com/the-secret-of-the-worlds-smelliest-flower-44439