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hand-pollination
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thumb|right|Hand-pollination of two gourd blossoms Hand-pollination, also known as mechanical pollination, is a technique that can be used to pollinate plants when natural or open pollination is either undesirable or insufficient.
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- pollination
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- opposite of
- open pollination
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- List of species
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thumb|right|Hand-pollination of two gourd blossoms Hand-pollination, also known as mechanical pollination, is a technique that can be used to pollinate plants when natural or open pollination is either undesirable or insufficient.
==Method== thumb|right|Phalaenopsis pollinia (orange) attached to a toothpick with its sticky [[viscidium]]
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