>On 17/08/2014 11:05 PM, Karen Thurlow-Kimball, New Moon Apiary wrote:
> Some flowers produce more than one color pollen. Purple-loosestrife has
> three different length stamens each producing a different color pollen,
> greenish, dirty yellow and bright yellow.
Dorothy Hodges in her classic book 'The Pollen Loads of the Honey Bee' shows three colours for each plant. The colours shown for loosestrife are a dark green, mid-green and a dirty yellow.
Best wishes
Peter
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W
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