Large flowers can be short‐lived: Insights from a high Andean cactus
Long‐lived and large flowers signify gamy floral maintenance monetary value . Species of arid / semi - arid climate with turgid flower are expected to have short efflorescence life spans and pollination‐induced flower seniority to suppress eminent floral body of water and other maintenance costs . We explore the context‐dependent large flower / myopic efflorescence longevity guess in Eriosyce curvispina ( Cactaceae ) , a large‐flowered specie of the semi - arid central Chilean Andes ....