Coryanthes

And there are some species of Euglossine bee that positively need, for manufacturing their characteristic species scent, substances that are supplied only by flowers of particular species of the orchid genus Coryanthes – bucket orchids.

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And there are some species of Euglossine bee that positively need, for manufacturing their characteristic species scent, substances that are supplied only by flowers of particular species of the orchid genus Coryanthes – bucket orchids.

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(_Coryanthes_) the orchid has its lower lip enlarged into a bucket, above which stand two water-secreting horns.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Bees visit these flowers, like those of the Coryanthes, in order to gnaw the labellum; in doing this they inevitably touch a long, tapering, sensitive projection, or, as I have called it, the antenna.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. Special Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

From such structures we may advance till we come to such a case of extraordinary adaptation as that lately described by Dr. Crüger in the Coryanthes.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. Special Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

Coryanthes maculata -- hanging from the branches of trees, and suspending in the air the singular lips of its flowers, like fairy buckets, as if for the use of the birds and insects that inhabit the surrounding foliage.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

Then, there's the trap-them-quick orchid, or Coryanthes macrantha, that is nicknamed the

Local News from Tuscaloosa News 2010

Then, there's the trap-them-quick orchid, or Coryanthes macrantha, that is nicknamed the

The Shad Plank 2010

Then, there's the trap-them-quick orchid, or Coryanthes macrantha, that is nicknamed the

The Shad Plank 2010