Thursday, July 5, 2012

Rare flower !

This wonderful flower, I would call it as rare flower since its very rare to see in my place and I don't know the name of it. Its growth cycle is very creative, I have found this next to our office at Lavelle Road, Bangalore. What is amazing about this flower/plant's journey? one might wonder... This simple looking creeper grows with its own struggle till it reaches above the tree branches, then starts producing light greenish oval shaped pre-flowering stuff (refer the picture above) then next couple of days, it starts blossoming wonderful textured flower, shaped like a saxophone with pouch behind I guess it is to attract insects, like wild flowers which consumes insects.

Next comes interesting part of the cycle, the flower starts transforming into green fruit, then after getting ripened, it starts drying by opening up like a dry basket with seeds in it. One can notice these baskets hanging in dead plant for a long duration with support of strong dry threads with seeds intact in it. When rainy days starts, these baskets fills up with water to wash away the seeds to fall on ground for new cycle. What a wonderful programming by the great creator/nature.





















Let me know if you could share the name and more info about this wonder flower. Thank you.