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Old 30-08-2014, 10:55 PM
Willi_9 Willi_9 is offline
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the photograph was taken July. It shows one of the first blooms of my passionflower this year. It had and has still flowers and buds. A single one opens for 2 days approx. When it opens, the pistils are standing upright like in the image. After a while they bend down, even beneath the stamina, so that visiting insects can transfer the pollen on their backs horizontally from stamina to pistils. ( Not very successfully in my case: I found a 'kind of' fruit only once in my life ) . After one day the pistils turn back again and the petals close and wither.
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