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Explosive flower blasts beaks to dislodge rival pollen Original

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By Ben Coxworth Verified, Bruce Anderson, Vinicius Nahime Brito, Vinícius Brito, César Augusto Arvelos
| New Atlas Verified
If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" pollen off of pollinating animals' bodies. Fictional species such as triffids aside, plants can't physically move from place to place in order to mate with one another.
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