随着动物与植物花朵之间精妙的部件匹配完成——长舌头可以深入狭窄的花管,毛绒绒的面部则埋入了多刺的刷状花朵,传粉的问题很快迎刃而解。
Match the right animal and plant parts-long tongue poked into narrow tube, furry face pressed into sticky brush-and pollen is soon on its way.
和动物花粉转运系统一样,植物的花囊也发生了惊人的改变,有的从管状和槽状变形为瓣膜状、刷状和刺状。
Flower receptacles, like the animals' transport systems, are wonderfully varied, from tubes and gullets to flaps, brushes, and spurs.
模糊的桃色与淡紫色刷状般的一抹横跨低矮的天空,就好像天上的画师在试着为天空着色,却不确定选择哪种颜料。
Across the lower sky were faint peach and lavender brush strokes, as if some celestial painter were experimenting and not quite sure which pigments to choose.
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