Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any agency that pollenizes flowers, as wind, water, or insects.
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Though the terms are sometimes confused, a pollinator is different from a pollenizer, which is a plant that is a source of pollen for the pollination process.
Pollinator Wikipedia 2009
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One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Some plants are self-fertile or self-compatible and can pollinate themselves (e.g., they act as their own pollenizer).
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Pollination can be cross-pollination with a pollinator and an external pollenizer, self-pollenization with a pollinator, or self-pollination without any pollinator:
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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In pollination management, a good pollenizer is a plant that provides compatible, viable and plentiful pollen and blooms at the same time as the plant that is to be pollinated.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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The terms "pollinator" and "pollenizer" are often confused: a pollinator is the agent that moves the pollen, whether it be bees, flies, bats, moths, or birds; a pollenizer is the plant that serves as the pollen source for other plants.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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MR. SHERMAN: If you want a good pollenizer go to Fayette Etter and get his Burtner.
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I do not know how this tree is as a self-pollenizer as there are two other trees near by of the same stock and planting.
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Red Lambert is too unproductive to be used except as a pollenizer.
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The only value I can see in this variety is that it may prove to be a good pollenizer.
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