Catasetum saccatum

Catasetum saccatum, the sack-shaped catasetum, is a species of orchid.

[1] Charles Darwin remarked on the ability of the species to launch its viscid pollen sacs with explosive force, when an insect touches a seta.

He was ridiculed for reporting this by the naturalist Thomas Huxley.

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