EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Sausage tree(Kigelia Africana) is a flowering plant belonging to the family Bignoniaceae. In these plants, pollination takes place mainly by bats and rarely by insects and wind. pollination by bats is called chiropterophily.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many people are unaware that over 500 plant species rely on bats to pollinate their flowers, including species of mango, banana, durian, guava and agave (used to make tequila). So, next time you drink some tequila or eat a mango, say thanks to the bats! The pollination of plants by bats is called chiropterophily.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chiropterophily is a type of pollination in which bats are the pollinating agents. Entomophily is a type of pollination in which the pollinating agents are insects. Pollination by birds is called ornithophily.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chiropterophily means the pollination which occurs through bats. The flower which is pollinated by bats is known as the chiropterophilous flower. Bat pollination plants are commonly found in tropical and desert areas. Most tropical plants are pollinated by nectar and pollen-eating bats.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kigelia africana, commonly called sausage tree, is native to riverbanks, floodplains, open woodlands and savannas from sub-Saharan central Africa to South Africa.