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Photo 1167
‘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
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Rick Schies
Another unique looking flower
March 9th, 2014
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