‘Matchstick Plant’ buds

Description of this image at PhytoImages: “Inflorescence with young flower buds.”

This image, full size, at PhytoImages: http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Bromeliaceae_Aechmea_gamosepala_80949.html

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Aechmea_gamosepala&rank=binomial

The white tendrils in the background: Spanish moss (“Tillandsia usneoides”), which, of course, is not a “moss” … but it *is* in the same plant family, Bromeliaceae, as the Matchstick plant in the image above! “Spanish moss” species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Tillandsia_usneoides&rank=binomial

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“Coffea arabica?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-03-07
2 years ago (“Chair back…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-03-07
3 years ago (“Ya think?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-03-07

[Rick Schies]

Another unique looking flower