This show-stopping lily isn't just gorgeous, it's also an excellent source of nectar, sure to attract hummingbirds to your ...

These flowers do well in USDA zones 4 to 9, prefer light shade, and are great for attracting hummingbirds thanks to the three large nectaries that can be found at the base of the flower. Ornamental ...

To make sure that flying pollinators come to flowers to pick up pollen, plants evolved special organs, the nectaries, to attract the animals. Scientists have now identified the sugar transporter ...

Nectaries are typically present in the flowers of plant species that are pollinated by wildlife and are typically absent in those plants that are wind pollinated and therefore do not need to ...

Young naive bees make the best pollinators but soon learn to avoid the snap of the keel petals by approaching the flower's nectaries from the side. Plenty of pollen still gets transferred ...

Nectar is the sugar-rich liquid that can also have anti-fungal properties and it's found in glands called nectaries at the base of flowers. The sugars in it are glucose, sucrose, and fructose.

Smilax has the additional resource of extra-floral nectaries, nectar-producing glands physically separate from the flowers. These nectaries may function as an organ for the plant to rid itself of ...

birds or butterflies to move pollen from one flower to another. But other plants produce different types of nectar glands called extrafloral nectaries. Plants produce these glands to bribe ants ...

Some eulophids forage effectively only on fully exposed nectaries, i.e., those unobstructed by other floral parts. Therefore, care must be taken to select plants that possess nectary architecture ...