How does the bottom of the konjac cup shaped Buddha flame bud and the female flowers constitute a tr

In the year of flowering, the top of the tuber is not a leaf bud but an inflorescence, the appearance of the inflorescence stalk is similar to the petiole, it is also a snakeskin pattern, and the top has the most distinctive feature of the Araceae family, the Buddha flame inflorescence.

The "scarf" around the periphery of the inflorescence is not a petal, but a total bract called a Buddha flame bud. Its bracts are also snakeskin on the outside, dark purple-red with white spots on the inside, and the fleshy spike-like inflorescence is surrounded by the positive.

The rod-shaped inflorescence can be divided into three parts: a large black cone at the uppermost end, which is a spongy structure formed by the axonal combination of sterile stamens and inflorescence, called appendages; The middle section is beige with male inflorescences; The bottom green is the female inflorescence.

The pollination process of East Asian konjac is an ingenious trap. On the first day after flowering, the female flowers will mature first, while the male flowers will take a day to mature, but the female flowers will only receive pollen for one day – that is, East Asian konjac cannot be pollinated by itself.

The bottom of the cup-shaped bud and the female flower form an easy-to-get trap, and when the foraging insect falls into it, it will pass the pollen of other plants it carries to the female flower in the process of finding a way out.

The next day, when the female flowers droop down, the foraging insects are released, and the male flowers are ripe, and the insects that have managed to escape are stained with pollen and passed on to the next inflorescence that tricks them.

After pollination, most of the structure of the inflorescence will dry up and fall off, leaving only the female flowers to slowly develop into berries. The fruit is light green at first, slowly turns red and finally dark blue as it grows, and the fruit ripens from top to bottom, so we tend to see a gradient of hues, which looks pretty cool, and each fruit has a seed in it.

The exit is small, and insects entering the trap are needed everywhere for pollination, and if you want to go out, you can't go out until the next day when the female flowers are drooping down.

It has a small opening at the top that allows the bees to go in and get out easily.

Because the top of it is small, it is not easy for the prey to get out as soon as it comes in.

Because the gap in his opening is small, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.

Because the top opening is small, it is not easy to fly out.

The next day, after the female flowers droop down, the foraging insects will be released.

Because its mouth is small, it can only be entered, and it is difficult to get out.

The opening at the top is small, so it is not easy to fly out.