Pollination

3 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. Nature's most deceptive perfume is the scent of rotting meatSome of the world's most striking plants have evolved a gruesome strategy to survive. By mimicking the stench of decaying flesh, these flowers trick scavenging insects into perfor…
2. The hidden fermentation that turns raw pollen into bee breadForager bees are physically unable to digest the pollen they gather from flowers. To survive, the hive must chemically transform it. Through a process of lactic fermentation and e…
3. The corpse flower heats itself to body temperature to spread the smell of death.The titan arum from Sumatra produces a flower spike over three metres tall that blooms for barely a day or two and smells of rotting meat. It first flowered in cultivation at Kew …

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