Pollination rigida", this allows the plant to self-pollinate, which is useful when biotic pollinators in the environment have decreased. It is possible for a plant have varying pollination methods, including both biotic and abiotic pollination. The orchid "Oeceoclades maculata" uses both rain and butterflies, depending on its environmental conditions. More commonly, pollination involves pollinators (also called pollen vectors): organisms that carry or move the pollen grains from the anther of one flower to the receptive part of the carpel or pistil (stigma) of another. Between 100,000 and 200,000 species of animal act as pollinators of the world's 250,000 species of flowering
The Flower of Gloster The Flower of Gloster The Flower of Gloster is a 1911 book by E. Temple Thurston (23 September 1879 – 19 March 1933), an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. Published by Williams and Norgate, it sold well enough to merit a second edition two years later. A third unillustrated edition was published by Chapman and Hall in 1918, after which the book remained out of print for over half a century until being republished by David & Charles in 1968. A year before that, ITV had broadcast a 13-part children's serial of the same name (loosely) based on Thurston's original