Does anyone know about flowers?

Question

On the Mirror Ophrys. What part of the plant has been modified that do not function in the normal manner?

Answer 1

The Ophrys species are highly adaptive for insect pollination particularly by bees and wasps of different species. A good example is Ophrys speculum, the Mirror Orchid, so called because of the shiny dark blue patch on the lip of the flower. The lip looks like the bluish shimmer of the folded wings of a female wasp. This, and its scent which mimics the s*x pheromes of the female wasp, attract the male. They develop a month or so before the females and attempt to copulate with the flowers carrying off the pollinium from one flower to another. Each species will attract a different insect. The flowers and the insects evolved and are still evolving together.