Podocarpus elongatus

It is found only in South Africa.

Podocarpus elongatus is wind pollinated. It may be a primitive method, but is far from ineffective or random. A recent study shows that female P. elongatus ovules selectively extract P. elongatus pollen from the air; even though the air contains pollen from other species 98.9% of the sampled ovules contained only P. elongatus pollen. The foreign particles in 1.1% of the ovules were particles of black carbon and tiny grains of sand - no foreign pollen grains were found. More

PODOCARPUS ELONGATUS DEFINITIONS - 1 definition found - WordNet (r) 2. More