Complicated Plant
June 25, 2010Posted by Kanga.
Previously, I had seen a very large version of this plant that sent up a giant stalk and then put out tiny and rather silly looking flowers. So, when this one appeared in front of the library, it gave me a change to document it’s reproductive process.
First, it sends up this tall stalk and clumps of buds.
The blooms are mostly just pestles and stamens and it blooms up the stalk.
Then come the seed pods, which fall to the ground.
You might think, as I did, that this is the end, but NO. There’s more.
There is a secondary bloom stage in which leaves and blooms come out of the same clusters that produced the first blooms.
Living the Travel Channel 
OK, THAT is silly. Looks very much like Dr. Suess. And it must be sturdy to not need staking!