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Thank you. These ones are so cool too as you can suck unsuspecting guests into sniffing them and touching the trigger. My son's girlfriend about had a fit when she got 'shot'; it was hilarious!
ooh! That looks wierd! Nice dark red color though.
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, LOTR, Fellowship of the Ring
The trigger is that hook like bit coming from the column. When an insect (or a person's nose ) touches it the trigger fires the pollen which then sticks to whatever is there and be carried on to a female flower to pollinate it.
Catasetum saccatum
) touches it the trigger fires the pollen which then sticks to whatever is there and be carried on to a female flower to pollinate it.
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