Many of the flowering plants producing hermaphrodite flowers have developed many devices to discourage self-pollination and to encourage…

Many of the flowering plants producing hermaphrodite flowers have developed many devices to discourage self-pollination and to encourage cross-pollination. Given below is a picture of one such outbreeding device in a flowering plant. Study the picture and answer the questions that follow :

Flowers present on different plants of same species

Explain how the given type of pollination is advantageous to the plant.

Can this flowering plant show geitonogamy? Justify your answer.