Flowering Tobacco

An image like this one at PhytoImages — http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Solanaceae_Nicotiana_langsdorffii_563.html — is labeled “Flowers in inflorescence (a ‘raceme’).”

[From Merriam-Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raceme » “Raceme” = “a simple inflorescence (as in the lily of the valley) in which the flowers are borne on short stalks of about equal length at equal distances along an elongated axis and open in succession toward the apex.”]

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

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

1 year ago (“Brown-belted bumble bee”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-06-19
2 years ago (“Butterfly bush ‘macro’”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-06-19
3 years ago (“Pipevine Swallowtail (corrected)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-06-19

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[Rick Schies]

Nice close-up Thom.