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__**CRUCIFIX ORCHIDS**__



//Pollination and Fertilisation//

Seed Maturation:
 * Pollen transferred from one flower to another (stigma)
 * Flower collapses, ovary swells to form a pod. When pod becomes ripe it will split and disperse seeds.
 * Orchid seeds are tiny. It has no nutrition to grow, so plants rely on mychorrhizal fungus to provide nutrition to grow.

//Floral Morphology and Visitation//s

Reproductive Organs:
 * Column= fused sexual organ.
 * Above the lip of the orchid and contains the female and male parts.
 * Inside the column is the anther (with pollen) and pistil (receives pollen and bears seeds)
 * Insects land on lip and pollen in carried by insects

//Variability and Floral Morphology// //Pollen Morphology//
 * Flower || Petal Length || Shape || Colour || Tube || Tube Length || Nectar Volume (mm) ||
 * 1 || 15.9 || Star || Dark orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || Fused pistil and stamen || 7.2 || 0.1 ||
 * 2 || 15.9 || " || Dark orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || " || 7.2 || 0.1 ||
 * 3 || 15.9 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || " || 6.9 || 0.1 ||
 * 4 || 15.9 || " || Dark orange petals, light orange crucifix centre || " || 6.9 || 0.05 ||
 * 5 || 15.9 || " || Dark orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || " || 6.9 || 0.05 ||
 * 6 || 15.9 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || " || 7.2 || 0.1 ||
 * 7 || 16.2 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre || " || 7.2 || 0.2 ||
 * 8 || 15.9 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre ||  || 7.2 || 0.05 ||
 * 9 || 14.4 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre ||  || 7.2 || 0.1 ||
 * 10 || 16.2 || " || Medium orange petals, yellow crucifix centre ||  || 7.2 || 0.1 ||
 * Mean ||  || - || - || - || 7.11 || 0.095 ||
 * Standard Deviation ||  ||   ||   ||   || 0.145 || 0.044 ||


 * Produces pollen in clusters, so when the insect enters the tube the entire cluster attaches to the insect.
 * The pollen is not in individual filaments
 * The pollen clusters are located towards the top of tube (column)
 * he pollen is very tiny and microscopes are needed to observe the pollen