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Breeding Systems

 30-Cleistogamous flowers

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Cleistogamous flowers — This is an example of a plant with cleistogamous flowers. Cleistogamy occurs through mutations with the loss of self-incompatibility. This example is Polygala polygama.
Photo taken by K. R. Robertson at the Savanna Army Depot, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
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