Monkeyflowers (<I>Mimulus guttatus</I>) (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Monkeyflowers (<I>Mimulus guttatus</I>) (2 of 2)

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To find out why tradeoffs between flower size and flower number are so difficult to detect, researchers conducted an experiment in which they planted more than 1,000 monkeyflowers of the species <I>Mimulus guttatus</I> in a greenhouse at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

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Photo courtesy of Michael Mucci of the University of Guelph

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