Massive pollen dispersion by spruce in Austrian Alps
Channel: NaturaVista
Date: 2022-05-29

#Austria #mountains #Alps

Here I was fortunate to witness and film a massive wind dispersion of spruce pollen in the western part of Dachstein mountain range, Austria. You can see clouds of pollen over the mountain forest. The process is termed scientifically "anemophily" or "anemogamy". It was crazy, the pollen was everywhere. Ten minutes of filming and my camera was well covered by pollen. The releasing took only half a day or so. During the days after some trees released pollen but not nearly in this amount. Thus, this was a great chance to see pollen dispersion in all its natural power.

Best regards,

Dr. Witold Lapinski