From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Crüger
Date:
25 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 358
Summary:
Asks about insect fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks about insect fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
Observations on Catasetum.
Figs require insects in order to set seed.
Thanks for news about fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Discusses fertilisation of orchids.
Mentions observations by John Scott.
Asks about "bud-variations".
Thanks for presentation copy of Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Ficus experiments confirm CD’s supposition that insects visit Melastoma for nectar, but HC thinks pollen-seekers fertilise the flowers.
Maranta fertilisation.