RT nectaromania: Three different banana flowers. Material for testing some research protocols! (3/6)

#banana #banana flower #musa #musa ceae #zingiberales #monocot #nectar

RT nectaromania: One of the banana inflorescences. (4/6)

#banana #banana flower #musa #musa ceae #zingiberales #monocot #inflorescence #bract

RT nectaromania: Another banana inflorescence found in the Chinese garden at TheHuntington (5/6)

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the science of nectar UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden Long live the nectaries!

If you take a closer look, either with a hand lens or a microscope, at the area where the nectar accumulates, you can see some hairs, also known as trichomes. Presumably, the area below these hairs are the nectary cells. 3/4

#nectar #monocotnectary #trichomes #tepals

Like other flowers in the lily family, the alstroemeria nectary is found at the base of the tepal. The upper two inner tepals (see arrows) contain nectar. These nectary tepals are folded in half at the base so as to make a tiny tube or pocket for the nectar to accumulate. 2/4

At the biochemical level, the #nectar is primarily composed of sugars in different ratios, but there are lots of other compounds, like nicotine and caffeine, that can also be found.

sucrose (blue and gold)
glucose (gold)
fructose (blue)

#nectar chemistry #metabolites

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These #monkeyflowers can be found in large patches with other monkeyflowers nearby throughout California.

Drawing traced from:
🔗inaturalist.org/photos/2233073…
📸Allison Autry

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Nectar is also an environment for microbial communities - #bacteria and #yeast - to thrive and can contribute to attracting pollinators.

Drawing traced from Figure 2 of Chappell & Fukami, 2018:
🔗web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/chapp…
📸Callie Chappell

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Hey nectar folks: some cool work on bird and bat adaptations to nectar consumption! the science of nectar

Dr. Jenn Weber Irene Liao the science of nectar

New awesome account alert! Everyone follow the science of nectar for all things nectar! #FollowFriday

Thank you the science of nectar Irene Liao for this gorgeous illustration and writeup of our Aquilegia QTL paper!!! #sciart

the science of nectar Sebastián Martínez-Salazar

I just created a new handle to share photos and science about nectar, especially in time for #botany2021 ! Please check it out, and if you’d like, please give it a follow! Also on Instagram.

Handle: the science of nectar

#nectar #scicomm #pictures #flowers #plants

the science of nectar It was great catching up indeed. Btw I got so so hungry after talking about that!! Also, I think this was my first floral morphology lesson ever, thanks to my grandma when I was 6

David Showalter Woah cool!!! Thanks for thinking of me David Showalter I used to be fascinated by the ones on Partridge pea (Chamaecrista) on the Saint Paul campus. Also the science of nectar here’s one for the records!

the science of nectar Come visit at Uconn!! :)

the science of nectar Annika Smith Soltis Lab @UF @amkatzer Lena Hileman Lachezar Nikolov Nevin Cullen dr tia-lynn ashman Rachel Vannette Stephanie Conway Molly Edwards, PhD Dr. Evangeline Ballerini @bugAdvocate Lopez-Uribe Lab Irene Liao Jeff Karron Emily Austen Vinita Gowda: Success has never been my weakness Tagging Sebastián Martínez-Salazar awesome list ! Thanks

the science of nectar UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden Yeah, I did those for a floral biology course I took as an undergrad. I need to look for the captions, because I also don't remember all the species... 😝