What is balsam plants method of reproduction?
Although balsam plants will propagate from cuttings, much better plants come from seed Sexual reproduction: “Stamens 5, alternating with petals, connate or nearly so into a ring surrounding ovary and stigma, falling off in one piece before stigma ripens; filaments short, flat with a scalelike appendage inside; anthers 2-celled, connivent, opening by a slit or pore. Gynoecium 4- or 5-carpellate, syncarpous; ovary superior, 4- or 5-loculed, each locule with 2 to many anatropous ovules; style 1, very short or ± absent; stigmas 1-5. Fruit an indehiscent berry, or a 4- or 5-valved loculicidal fleshy capsule, usually dehiscing elastically. Seeds dispersed explosively from opening valves, without endosperm; testa smooth or tuberculate.” http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Plantae/Balsam… Pollination seems to be mostly done by Bombus species and bumble bees, honey bees are reported to visit the plants and removed lar
