Water-pollinated plants
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Some species of underwater plants, such as the Zostera marina species of eelgrass, produce blossoms and pollen and reproduce by underwater pollination. Pollination occurs when the noodle-like pollen structures stick together and come in contact with stigmas of female plants in shallow pools.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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The loves of the plants
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Taxonomist Carl Linnaeus compared plants' reproductive systems to those of humans. He also spoke of plants getting married, wearing wedding gowns and practicing monogamy. People of the 18th century justified women's subordination by the example set by the sexual hierarchy of plants.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Plants that warm themselves
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Reseach into the ability of the Philodendron selloum to thermoregulate showed that the plants' florets use fat droplets as energy store and mitochondria to break down the droplets for metabolic regulation.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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