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Maiden

Oct 31, 2014 1:58 PM CST

Montreal, Canada
Gardeners are artists!

terrafirma said: Maiden! Your collection is simply stunning! I'm ing! What is the plant in the 4th picture of this last set that you posted? Outstanding!

Happy Halloween to you too!

Its a stylidium caespitosum, a west australian plant. The flowers have some little slingshots, and they whip the buzzing insects with pollen. Pretty stunning. The mecanism is very fast.
Stylidium caespitosum by dals009, on Flickr

Here you can see the mecanism details. Its unique in the botanical world.

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