Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
Home Home » TYPES » Herbs » Strelitzia reginae green fruit
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 10,346
Total number of hits on all images: 5,047,807

Strelitzia reginae green fruit

Strelitzia reginae green fruit
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 328 of 378  
Next Next
Image 330 of 378  
  • Stachys aethiopica
  • Stachys aethiopica at Grotto Bay
  • Stachys dregeana
  • Stachys tubulosa flower
  • Strelitzia juncea
  • Strelitzia juncea flowers
  • Strelitzia juncea starting off
  • Strelitzia reginae blue spathe
  • Strelitzia reginae green fruit
  • Strelitzia reginae has beaten botanical xenophobia
  • Strelitzia reginae leaves angled like satellite dishes
  • Strelitzia reginae white petals, not blue
  • Streptocarpus dunnii
  • Streptocarpus dunnii flowers
  • Streptocarpus dunnii leaf
  • Streptocarpus floribundus
  • Streptocarpus formosus

Image information

Description

The fruits of Strelitzia reginae are large, still green in the photo. They are positioned in a row, similarly to the earlier flower sequence in the boat-like spathe. In this case only two fruits have formed. Some floral remains are persisting on their tips.

The fruit is a three-angled capsule, its seeds growing in three separate locules. The green fruit is initially leathery, becoming hard and woody as it ripens. It splits from its tip in summer to release the seeds.

The numerous small seeds are black or brown, globose i.e. almost spherical in shape, attached to woolly, tufted, orange arils. These seeds are eaten by birds, obliging to disperse them in return for being fed, oblivious of the transaction (Pooley, 1998; www.plantzafrica.com).

Hits
1779
Photographer
Ivan Latti
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery