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Volume 27, Number 23
03 December 2008

pp 3081-3219

Megasporophyte leaf of Cycas - During the pollination season, the ovules growing on the edges of megasporophyte leaves secrete liquid droplets which attract insects and facilitate the pollination. The photographer, Changbin Chen, a plant biologist at the University of Minnesota at St. Paul who also trained at the New York Institute of Photography, writes: "Whenever I am free of my research and teaching of plant diversity and molecular genetics, I like to take wild flower photos. I have about 50,000 flower photos that cover thousands of species."

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