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  • Tūī on a kōwhai bush.
    Rights: Norman Mason Published 4 August 2022 Size: 130 KB Referencing Hub media

    The nectar1 of the kōwhai tastes delicious to tūī. When they drink the nectar, they pick up pollen2 too.

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    1. nectar: A sugary liquid found in many flowers, made and stored in a nectary. Used to attract animals, which eat it and accidentally collect or deposit pollen at the same time.
    2. pollen: Dust-like grains that contain male sex cells (gametes) of flowering plants (angiosperms) and cone plants (gymnosperms). Pollen is made on the anthers of flowering plants.
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    2. A sugary liquid found in many flowers, made and stored in a nectary. Used to attract animals, which eat it and accidentally collect or deposit pollen at the same time.

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    4. Dust-like grains that contain male sex cells (gametes) of flowering plants (angiosperms) and cone plants (gymnosperms). Pollen is made on the anthers of flowering plants.