Botany - Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Question with Solution | TestHub

Characteristics of entomophilous flower:

1. Flowers are larger, brightly coloured and produce pleasant fragrance.
2. Flowers are more conspicuous.
3. Smaller flowers are produced in compact groups called inflorescence.
4. Flowers pollinated by bees are usually blue, purple or yellow. The flowers pollinated by butterflies are most often red.
5. Flowers secrete nectar which makes positive attraction to the insects like bees.
6. The pollens of insect pollinating flowers are sticky and spiny (echinulate).