Milkweed Pollination, Up Close and Personal (Patreon)

Milkweed Pollination, Up Close and Personal

This video shows how milkweed plants get pollinated and explores the unique floral morphology of this subfamily of plants, the Asclepiads. If you're interested in the microscope featured here hit up : https://beaverlabtech.com/?ref=fluwahii&utm_source=affiliate and use code crimepays10 for a discount. The model featured here is the M2. In milkweed flowers, the central column is called the gynostegium. The gynostegium is topped by five white hoods, in between the hoods on the vertical sides of the gynostegium are the stigmatic slits. inside each stigmatic slit is a stigma as well as a pollinarium, which resembles a boomerang. each leg of the boomerang has nodules of aggregated pollen, singularly referred to as a pollinium. In this video we use the rare milkweed Asclepias prostrata as a model for milkweed pollination.