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How are flowers adapted to wind pollination?

      

How are flowers adapted to wind pollination?

  

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Eric
-anthers/stigma hang outside the flower to increase chances of pollination
- the style/filament is long to expose stigma/anthers
- stigma is hairy/feathery/branched to increase surface area over which pollen grains
land/to trap pollen grains
- pollen grains are smooth/dry/light/small to be easily carried by wind
- large amount of pollen grains to increase chances of pollination
- anthers loosely attached to filaments to enable them to sway to release pollen grains
- pollen grains may have structures which contain air to increase buoyancy
- flowers have long stalks holding them out in the wind

ericmunguti answered the question on October 5, 2018 at 10:05


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