Spy planes, aerial drones, night raids, heavy armory: usually the stuff of military operations, deployed, as one might think, in far away locales such as Afghanistan or Iraq, seem to become increasingly popular as weapons of choice in a long-waged war on US homeland territory, against a very special angiosperm belonging to the order of rosales: cannabis and its three most prominent subspecies sativa, indica, and ruderalis. 

They look like vaginas, cute butts, or penises: floral sex organs very often remind us of our own reproduction apparatus and therefore seem awkwardly appealing. But we are not the only ones intrigued by their fancy style: the pollen of many species, like that of grasses, cereal crops and trees are wind-disseminated, but most species use insects, birds, even us humans to distribute their pollen. The strategies they thereby employ are often fascinating, and the adaptions that have evolved in flowers as well as the diverse pollinators are astounding.