coconut is pollinated through what ?
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through water
The palm produces both the female and male flowers on the same inflorescence; thus, the palm is monoecious. Other sources use the term polygamomonoecious. ... Coconut palms are believed to be largely cross-pollinated, although some dwarf varieties are self-pollinating.
The palm produces both the female and male flowers on the same inflorescence; thus, the palm is monoecious. Other sources use the term polygamomonoecious. ... Coconut palms are believed to be largely cross-pollinated, although some dwarf varieties are self-pollinating.
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Tall palms are normally cross-pollinating and heterozygous, while dwarf palms are normally self-pollinating and homozygous. The coconutplant is monoecious with inflorescences bearing both male and female flowers.
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Numerous wasps (Polistes crinita Felt) visited male and female coconut flowers for nectar, but carried little pollen on their bodies, especially when visiting female flowers. Many wasps foraged for several hours on only one or two female flowers, repelling other wasps or honeybees that tried to visit them; hence their behaviour discouraged cross-pollination.
Most honeybees visited male flowers from which they usually collected pollen as well as nectar. The proportion of honeybees collecting pollen loads did not vary much with the time of day. Few of the honeybees visiting female flowers had pollen loads, and, although they had less pollen on their bodies than honeybees visiting male flowers, they had more than wasps and so were more likely to pollinate the flowers
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