"Oncidium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... though the pollen-tubes penetrated the stigma. An analogous case has been recorded by M. Riviere,[307] with two plants of O. Cavendishianum, which were both self-sterile, but reciprocally fertilised each other. All these cases refer to the genus Oncidium, but Mr. Scott found that Maxillaria atro-rubens was "totally insusceptible of fertilisation with its own pollen," but fertilised, and was fertilised by, a widely ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
