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The conspicuously large #Bracts influence #ReproductiveSuccess in #ThuniaAlba (Orchidaceae)

#Pollinator | #NectarRobbery | #BombusBreviceps

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad036

So here's the expensive, disease-resistant, red-bracted dogwood (Cornus kousa 'Scarlet Fire') I planted this spring. The nursery guy said the leaf chlorosis is due to lack of micronutrients so we'll see whether it snaps back after a few drenches of those. Fingers crossed. #dogwood #cornus #bracts #disease #rutgers #trees #fertilizer #leaves
Trillium in white, pink, and purple (Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, April 15, 2025). “What we identify as leaves are morphologically bracts….” Swihart 2023. Learn more at https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 and https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/whenbloom.htm and https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/trilliums/about.shtml and https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2023-04-07-trillium-good-things-come-threes and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #leaves #bracts
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

California State Parks

California State Parks
My neighbor's dogwood after some rain. The red structures are bracts, leaves modified to function as petals for the drab inflorescence within. #dogwood #flowers #trees #petals #bracts #botany #rain #water #cornus #pollination
Picture a Day: Aug 5

Cheryl Lindo Jones's digital "cabinet of curiosities"

CJ's Wunderkammer

Our tree out the front has bracts...its very pretty. It's a dogwood. Thanks to everyone for helping to identify it.

I took this photo today.

#bracts #tree #bloomscrolling #dogwood

The #Bougainvillea #vine is native to South America, but is widely grown ornamentally.
The showy #flowers are really just modified #leaves. The true flowers are the small white circles bundled up with #pink and #orange #bracts.

Get a print of this image or another at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/bougainvillea-flowers-heron-and-fox.html

#FlowersOfMastodon #Bloomscrolling #BougainvilleaSpectabilis #Photograph

Bougainvillea Flowers by Heron And Fox

Bougainvillea Flowers by Heron And Fox

Heron And Fox - Website
The silvery-white #bracts on these #MissWillmottsGhost (Eryngium giganteum) #flowers are quite stunning. It's not often you see plant parts (other than the actual flower #petals) that are a color like that.

Found at the Carl S. English Jr. #BotanicalGarden in #Seattle.

#Pixel6Pro #GooglePixel