setSC-Hemitomes_congestum-10Actions

setSC-Hemitomes_congestum-10
Title
<em>Hemitomes congestum</em>
Author
Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
Keywords
Hemitomes congestum
Description
Hemitomes congestum
The fruits of Hemitomes congestum are round, white, and fleshy. Because the fruits are fleshy at maturity, presumably they are eaten by some animal which thereby scatters the seeds in various places in the forest litter. But nobody knows what animal eats the fruits.

Return to the Hemitomes congestum [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>Hemitomes congestum</em>
Common Name
Gnome Plant
Categories
  • Image
  • Not a cover image

Creation and update

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