The Answer:
This is the answer to the previous post entitled “What is It?” The answer is that the earlier pictures were of the inside of this Datura flower. Hard to believe such a long bell-shaped flower would look so non-assuming and flat inside. I expected a long exotic stamen and pistils similar to a hibiscus flower.
What is It?
This is, obviously, the inside of a flower. I’ll give a hint. I had to get down on my knees and shoot up into the flower. Want to give a guess in comments? I’ll give an answer and show a picture of the flower in my next post.
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Succulent Potential
The beginnings of flowers are often even more spectacular than the finished product. I love this starburst effect on one of my most prolific succulent plants.
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Skyscape with Thunbergia
I loved this simple view of this tiny thunbergia against the blue sky.
To see Cee’s Iris and other floral offerings, go here: http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/04/flower-of-the-day-january-4-2016-iris/
Ceiba Speciosa–Silk Floss Tree
When I first published pictures of the flowers of this tree, I didn’t know its name, so I identified it as a Mexican Orchid Tree.
I later published pictures of its thorny trunk. These photos of the trunk are new, as are all of these photos, except for the ones that show flowers, since the tree is no longer blooming. (An explanation of supposed reasons for the thorns is given below in the comments section.)
At first, when the fruit appeared, I thought it must be a breadfruit tree:
but later, when its very large pods started to burst open, revealing huge clumps of what looked like kapok–the material that was once used for packing material and to pad envelopes–I told a friend that it was a kapok tree.
Today for some reason I was reminded that I’d meant to see if this was true and an hour’s research online finally earned me an answer. Although it is not a kapok tree, it is related to it and the stuffing inside the large pods is often used as packing material as well as in the production of canoes, wood pulp and ropes.
In addition, oil from its seeds may be used for both commercial and cooking purposes.
All in all, a most intriguing tree. I was so happy to have identified it that I drove through stop and go bumper-to-bumper weekend traffic to get these additional shots to thrill you all with my new knowledge. You are thrilled, right???
What is the name of this tree and flower???? Ceiba Speciosa–Silk Floss Tree
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Zooming in: White Poinsettia
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Thunbergia: Private Property
Since my flower bank was completely empty, I went out and took dozens of shots of different flowers today, but at I was going through them––cropping, sharpening, nudging this way and that––this is the one that most captured my interest. So, here it is––a photo so evocatively personal that I feel as though I’m invading the plant’s privacy in sharing it. This is a purple/blue Thunbergia Grandiflora undressed. Its petals have fallen to ground leaving other beauties exposed. Soon there will be a new bud for a new year that I wish you happiness in!!
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Can’t Resist!!!
I found this photo on an old backup drive and can’t resist using it as my flower of the day.
Discarded Dreams
What story does this discarded and abandoned wedding corsage tell? You tell me.
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