Revisiting the waking #Dorstenia gigas @ #Copenhagen #BotanicalGardens

#pseudanthia #pseudoflowers forming

#Socotra #Soqotra #Yemen

#succulents #botany #plantscience @plants

The cyathium of #Euphorbiaceae is a kind of pseudanthium in which a “flower” is recreated by bracts acting like petals, staminate flowers acting like stamens, and carpellate flowers acting like the gynoecium (pistil). It is a marvel of evolution! #pseudanthia 📷: Euphorbia geroldii #botany 🌾🧪🌱

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more #alien flowers
(pseudo-flowers, #pseudanthia)

#Dorstenia foetida

plant from seed

#Yemen #Soqotra #Socotra #Succulents

#botany #plantscience @plants

🌿🌸Check out the newly published paper ‘Pseudanthia in angiosperms: a review’ in @AnnBot by Jakub Baczyński and Regine Claßen-Bockhoff https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad103 (1/8)

#AoBpapers #Pseudanthia #FlowerMimicry