Unable to attract bees and other pollinators to its golden pollen, Cypripedium wardii, an orchid species native to Tibet and China, creates “fool’s gold” pollen, a sugary snack that entices insects among its petals whereby they become covered in real pollen. Pseudopollen, as it’s called, has been observed in orchids before, a species whose true pollen […]
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