Question

In north-central Florida, the cars, homes, streets, and ponds are covered with an impressive coating of bright yellow dust every spring. Upon closer, microscopic examination, the yellow "dust" turns out to be pollen grains. This area of Florida has pine trees, showy daytime-flowering plants, and often-unnoticed nighttime-flowering plants, with sweet-scented flowers, releasing pollen at the same time of year. Based on this information, which group of plants do you think is responsible for the yellow pollen?

Answer 1

The correct answer is: pine trees

Step-by-step explanation:

The yellow dust that normally covers up cars, streets, and homes does not cause any allergies and it cames from pine trees.

These trees are very ancient and have lived on earth from a long long time ago and their process of fertilization is what gives us this yellow dust that covers our streets, pollen is just the pine seed fertilized. It's the normal reproductive process of these trees!

Pollen is also very common as a cooking ingredient, some people even take it in vitamin pills.

Pine pollen abounds only at a certain time of the year, so enjoy this phenomenon if you have the chance to witness it!