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From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 74
Summary:

Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin John Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 75
Summary:

He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project