See a snake's head fritillary flower bloom, gradually opening the stamen to reveal the pollen
Time-lapse video, filmed over three days, of a snake's head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) flower. The stamens open sequentially to reveal the pollen.
Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Telemann Trio/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants can reproduce asexually in a variety of ways. Learn about bulb, gemma, plantlet, and cutting forms of asexual plant reproduction.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.You can say that all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.There are fungus among us. How well do we understand them?
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Experimental evidence of plant respiration.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants, ranging from the simple liverwort (a bryophyte) to the flowering plants (angiosperms), have evolved structures enabling them to colonize the land of almost any habitat.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants have evolved into many diverse forms that define and sustain ecosystems.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the unusual seed dispersal of the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
