Cleistogamous flowers do have sex.They self-pollinate on their short stalks.The bud never opens but at least two of the ripe anthers touch the stigma as the neck of the pistil is so short and this leaves pollen grains on it. It's the first, open (chasmogamous) flowers on long stalks (peduncles) the same plant that are cross-pollinated. Drying valves of the fruits of the cross-pollinated flower shoot their seeds several feet away from the parent plant. As the seeds in a cleistogamous fruit are genetically so similar to the parent and are attached to such short stalks, they are usually deposited much closer to the adult that made them. Agamospermy is the name used to describe the process of producing seeds without sex (as in a number of breeds of citrus), not cleistogamy. See the book, "Wily Violets and Underground Orchids" University of Chicago Press.
Wow! Fascinating! Thanks for taking time to provide me and viewers of this channel a very clear explanation of violet reproduction. And thanks for the reading assignment, I will definitely check that out!
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So fascinating! Loved learning about how they spread with those low flowers. Looking forward to them appearing very soon.
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You are so informative. Thank you. Can you eat the leaves after flowering, I have them all over my yard.
I think they are best early!
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Cleistogamous flowers do have sex.They self-pollinate on their short stalks.The bud never opens but at least two of the ripe anthers touch the stigma as the neck of the pistil is so short and this leaves pollen grains on it. It's the first, open (chasmogamous) flowers on long stalks (peduncles) the same plant that are cross-pollinated. Drying valves of the fruits of the cross-pollinated flower shoot their seeds several feet away from the parent plant. As the seeds in a cleistogamous fruit are genetically so similar to the parent and are attached to such short stalks, they are usually deposited much closer to the adult that made them. Agamospermy is the name used to describe the process of producing seeds without sex (as in a number of breeds of citrus), not cleistogamy. See the book, "Wily Violets and Underground Orchids" University of Chicago Press.
Wow! Fascinating! Thanks for taking time to provide me and viewers of this channel a very clear explanation of violet reproduction. And thanks for the reading assignment, I will definitely check that out!
Interesting fact , thank you for sharing
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