DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most conifers and about 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated. Wind pollinated plants include grasses and their cultivated cousins, the cereal crops, many trees, the infamous allergenic ragweeds, and others. All release billions of pollen grains into the air so that a lucky few will hit their targets.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are two main ways pollen is moved from flower to flower: Pollen is blown by wind: These flowers are said to be wind pollinated. Wind blows pollen in all directions, so a wind pollinated plant needs to make lots of pollen for some of it to reach the right flowers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anemophily is the process when pollen is transported by air currents from one individual plant to another. About 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated, including grasses and cereal crops, many trees, and the infamous allergenic ragweeds.