Altruistic. Clerodendrum paniculatum, Pagoda Flower, and Brown Pansy, Junonia hedonia, Butterfly House, Amsterdam Zoo ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pagoda Flowers - certainly 'in captivity' and also usually 'in the wild' - don't produce seeds but propagate through their roots and their suckers. So fruit-yielding pollination doesn't occur much. Still they have flowers and you might say that they altruistically produce nutrients for Butterflies and other insects.
Here Pagoda is being visited by a Brown Pansy, Junonia hedonia, almost in camouflage colors. It wasn't until I pointed it out that Olymp came into play.
Altruistic. Clerodendrum paniculatum, Pagoda Flower, and Brown Pansy, Junonia hedonia, Butterfly House, Amsterdam Zoo ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pagoda Flowers - certainly 'in captivity' and also usually 'in the wild' - don't produce seeds but propagate through their roots and their suckers. So fruit-yielding pollination doesn't occur much. Still they have flowers and you might say that they altruistically produce nutrients for Butterflies and other insects.
Here Pagoda is being visited by a Brown Pansy, Junonia hedonia, almost in camouflage colors. It wasn't until I pointed it out that Olymp came into play.