Sentences with phrase «bulbous stamens»
When a bird grabs one of the bulbous stamens, the organ explodes, spraying a jet of pollen onto the bird's beak, face and neck.
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The bulbous stamens contain a sugary concoction, so the birds eat them like berries.
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When researchers scaled up and down steep mountain slopes to install video cameras in the trees in which these flowers grow, they caught the plants offering a sugar - packed reward to visiting birds: the bellows organ, a bulbous, brightly colored appendage high in sugar and citric acid, which is attached to the plant's male reproductive organ, or stamen.