To Gardeners’ Chronicle [4–5 June 1860]
Summary
Wants to hear from readers about the way in which the bee-orchid (Ophrys apifera) is fertilised. He has always found it to be self-fertilised but greatly doubts that the flowers of any plant are fertilised for generations by their own pollen. The bee-orchid has sticky glands, which would make it adapted for fertilisation by insects; this makes him want to hear what happens to its pollen-masses in places he has not observed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [4 or 5] June 1860 |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 9 June 1860, p. 528 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2826 |
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
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