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setSC-Helosis-8
Title
<em>Helosis</em> - female flowers
Author
Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
Keywords
Helosis, female flowers
Description
Helosis, female flowers
Hundreds of female flowers cover this flowering stalk of a Costa Rican Helosis. Although no moisture is shown here, droplets of liquid are often found on female Helosis flowers, attracting flies, which also visit the male flowers in search of a similar liquid.

Return to the Helosis [1] page or the Parasitic Plant Index [2].
Publisher
Botanical Society of America
Additional data
copyright: Carlquist, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
Collection
Parasitic Plants
Botanical Name
<em>Helosis</em>
Location Country
Costa Rica
Categories
  • Image
  • Not a cover image

Creation and update

Links
  1. https://pix.botany.org//parasitic_plants/Helosis.php
  2. https://pix.botany.org//Parasitic_Plants/