Plants have adapted strange techniques to help with sex
“There are some crazy techniques that plants have evolved with over thousands of years” to help them with their sex life, said Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, a doctoral student at Rutgers University who has studied tree sex.
Here are a few examples:
The violet
New Jersey’s state flower produces flowers in spring like other species to attract insects that will spread pollen to other violets.
“They’re charming,” Blake-Mahmud said. But in the fall the violet has a second act to its sex life that is largely hidden from humans. It flowers again, but the buds don’t open they remain in the dirt, and the male and female parts fertilize themselves.
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It is 23 years since the passing of the Scotland Act at Westminster, which led to the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh the following year.
And given recent events, it may now be time for reflection on how the Act is working in practice. Holyrood was designed as a unicameral legislature, a single body, with scrutiny and amendments to legislation being undertaken by what was supposed to be a powerful committee system.
Those of us who have been forced to sit through various committee sessions over the years have known for some time that this system is unfit for purpose. The problem was brought into sharp public focus this month with the high-profile appearance of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon before the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints. Thanks to partisan, soft-ball questioning by the majority SNP mem