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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, S
The 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 Ecology

Volume

25

Pagination

210-212

ISSN

1442-9985

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Carlton, Australia

Place of publication

Blackwell Science Asia

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Other environmental management not elsewhere classified

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