Hazelnuts have long been prized as a tasty and nutritious food. Found in forests statewide in Missouri, they are a favorite wild edible for many people. Squirrels and other small mammals feast on the ...

Wind-pollinated plants let their pollen blow in the wind and hope that their pollen grains reach another plant for pollination. Insect-pollinated plants use insects and other animals to carry ...

Hazelnuts have long been prized as a tasty and nutritious food. Found in forests statewide in Missouri, they are a favorite ...

One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one flower to another, where fertilization takes place. Below ...

Pollen is full of genetic information needed to fertilise a plant. Once fertilised, plants can make their seeds. For some plants, the process of pollination is the work of the wind and rain. In other ...