Nectar Addition Data

This study demonstrates the specific adaptive advantages of food deception by showing a concurrent reduction in particular male and female functions when a food reward is restored to a deceptive flower. In complex floral systems such as Cypripedium spp. where inbreeding depression is high, generalized food deception not only decreases the deleterious effects of inbreeding depression, but shows no negative consequences for attraction of pollinators and fruit set.