ABSTRACT
Flowers are stereotypically viewed as symbols of beauty which have inspired poets for centuries. To the layperson, owers are usually associated with bright colors and sweet fragrances. Of course owers do not exist for the benet of human observers, despite the reverence conferred upon them by poets such as Shakespeare and Goethe. In a biological context, owers represent mechanisms which plants have evolved in order to exploit third-parties, mostly insects, as a means of transferring gametes between individuals and achieve cross-fertilization (Faegri and van der Pijl 1979).
