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Flowers by the wayside

W.A.F. HOPPER

Walking down the road one morning I noticed that the trees along the avenue had shed some flowers. I examined the corolla of the flowers and saw there were four epipetalous stamens with curved filaments. They were in pairs and while two were long, two were short. There was also a short sterile stamen, the Staminode. These are the typical features of Bigoniaceae. The name of the plant is Kigelia.

The branches of the trees were long peduncles and still carried the calyx cup and the central pistil, from which the flowers had fallen. In a few months' time, you would see fruit among the dense foliage.

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