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Technique for washing nectar from the flowers of Tasmanian leatherwood (Eucryphia lucida Eucryphiaceae)
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posted on 2023-05-16, 12:33 authored by Mallick, SThe technique for extracting floral nectar using micropipettes is often unsuited to flowers where nectar is produced in very small volumes and/or where nectar is highly viscous. An alternative technique for washing the viscous nectar from the flowers of Tasmanian leatherwood, Eucryphia lucida (Labill.) is described. Here, two washes with a known volume of distilled water removed 95% of total floral sugar. Using such a washing technique on exposed and bagged E. lucida flowers provided information on nectar production in this species that could not have been obtained using a standard micropipette extraction method.
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Publication title
Austral EcologyVolume
25Pagination
210-212ISSN
1442-9985Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Carlton, AustraliaPlace of publication
Blackwell Science AsiaRepository Status
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