Superb photography Regrds
prasad On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Hemant Tripathi <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear All, > Just wanted to shared not so good pictures of Clerodendrum indicum. > Also called as tube flower because of its long tubular corolla. > What fascinates me with the whole grouse of Celrodendrums is their > pollination mechanism. It’s an well-known fact that almost all of the > clerodendrums avoid self-pollination by employing dichogamy (male and > female parts of plants mature at different stages) and herkogamy (male and > female parts of plants at two different heights). It’s quite interesting to > figure out that the tube is so deep that it would require a specialist to > pollinate this flower. What if that specialist pollinator is not there? > This species of clerodendrum is not native to India. I am sure this plant > must have already been shared on this forum. But I just wanted to put > across this with curiosity amd amazement of pollination mechanism specific > to Clerodedrum. > > - Hemanth > > *...imperishable spark of the perishable mind. * > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Orissa, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
