Claim · model-written summary
Moth infestation of buds significantly limits fruit set.
Syzygium alternifoliumVerbatim
t0“Syzygium alternifolium”
e1“Bud infestation by a moth, flower predation by the beetle, Popillia impressipyga and bud and flower mounds significantly limit fruit set rate.”
Title
A.J. Solomon Raju; J. Radha Krishna; P. Hareesh Chandra Journal of Threatened Taxa 2014. doi:10.11609/jott.o3768.6153-71
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation The tree mass flowers in the dry season.
- Observation Floral traits suggest combined insect and wind pollination.
- Observation Floral traits suggest a generalist pollination system adapted to insect pollinators.
- Observation The plant is self-incompatible and obligately outcrossing.
- Observation Only one ovule forms a seed per many-ovuled flower, making fruit and seed set rates equal.
- Observation Natural fruit set was 11%.
- Association Flower predation by Popillia impressipyga significantly limits fruit set.
- Association Bud and flower mounds significantly limit fruit set.
- Association Local fruit collection limits natural repopulation.
- Association Short seed viability limits natural repopulation.
- Association High seedling mortality linked to water stress, nutrient deficiency and erratic rainfall limits repopulation.