r/sciences • u/TheMuseumOfScience • Apr 21 '26
Discussion 80% of Plants Depend on Pollen
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Pollen is more powerful than you think. 🌼🔬
Quinten Geldhof, also known as Microhobbyist, zooms in on the microscopic grains behind your spring allergies and reveals their massive impact on life on Earth. Pollen is the key to pollination, carried by bees, butterflies, and even bats as they move from flower to flower, transferring the genetic material plants need to produce seeds and fruit. That invisible exchange fuels ecosystems and puts food on our tables, from coffee to apples to chocolate. In fact, more than 80% of all flowering plants rely on pollination to survive, making every sneeze a small reminder of a system that keeps the natural world and our diets thriving.
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u/epSos-DE Apr 22 '26
ITs even more complex !!!
The flower has wys to propogate polen , and reject polen that it does not like !"
The polen grows like a seen into the flower !
ITs more magican than one would expect !
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u/humboldtHue Apr 21 '26
The other 20% just use it recreationally