From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 9 February 1861, p. 122
Summary:
Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project