elatior grows to about three feet tall and wide, but usually stays smaller indoors.
Of course, these were a different group of fungus gnats than the ones you’d probably find in your home, since the ones in the study are native to Japan, but that doesn’t mean the gnats in your neck of the woods couldn’t be tricked into bellying up to the cast-iron flower buffet if yours happens to flower.Īn evergreen perennial, A. The gnats were covered in pollen, which they transferred to the next flower as they looked for another meal.
The flower, on the other hand, got what it wanted. They discovered that fungus gnats would enter the flower, likely thinking it was a mushroom that they could feed on, only to re-emerge in what one might imagine is abject disappointment at the lack of a fungal buffet. Their research was published in Ecology, the journal for the Ecological Society of America, in 2017.
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