What are the Adaptation of Hibiscus
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Shape. Hibiscus petals and their middle stamens form a bulls-eye, which helps guide hummingbirds, with their long, slender bills, into the flower. The flower's middle stamen features anthers covered with yellow pollen and five dark stigmas on its end.Apr 24, 2017
1. red tubular flowers to attract birds
2. stamens fused into a tube around the style with its branched stigmas ... this keeps most of the pollen away from the stigmas and prevents self-pollination. Also, the position of the stamens and stigmas are just right for pollen transfer on the heads of visiting birds.
What are the adaptations of hibiscus?
I have seen hibiscus plants growing on an island in the Bahamas where it was just sand. A hurricane had come through several years previous to my visit and stripped the vegetation off the island. The hibiscus had reseeded itself or else the plants washed back.
Reply:Hibiscus is a mesophytes they do not show much adaptation s to live.But they show two xerophytic characters, one is sunken stomata and other one is mucilage ducts in the cells