Without scrolling down can you guess what variety these flowers are?
I chanced upon this flowering tree recently, and I would have ignored it had I not seen the fruits hanging nearby. They looked so ordinary and pale; it is hard to believe they grow into the fleshy nutritious fruit, Avacado. All the flowers were in closed state. I scanned around for an open flower of Avacado, but didn’t find any. The macro shots too were not of much use. Later I read interesting facts about avocado flowers which explained why the flowers are in closed state. One has to spend hours studying its timings when it would be in its bloomed state.
Avacado flower is structurally and functionally very different from other flowers. It is unique. The Avacado flower has both male and female parts. The first or female stage remains open for only 2 or 3 hours. The flower then closes and remains closed the rest of the day and that night. The following day it opens again. But now the stigma will no longer receive pollen. Instead, the flower is now shedding pollen. That is, each flower is female at its first opening, male at its second. After being open several hours the second day, the flower closes again, this time for good. If it had been successfully pollinated at the first opening, and if other conditions are right, it will develop into a delicious fruit, the Avacado.
I chanced upon this flowering tree recently, and I would have ignored it had I not seen the fruits hanging nearby. They looked so ordinary and pale; it is hard to believe they grow into the fleshy nutritious fruit, Avacado. All the flowers were in closed state. I scanned around for an open flower of Avacado, but didn’t find any. The macro shots too were not of much use. Later I read interesting facts about avocado flowers which explained why the flowers are in closed state. One has to spend hours studying its timings when it would be in its bloomed state.
Avacado flower is structurally and functionally very different from other flowers. It is unique. The Avacado flower has both male and female parts. The first or female stage remains open for only 2 or 3 hours. The flower then closes and remains closed the rest of the day and that night. The following day it opens again. But now the stigma will no longer receive pollen. Instead, the flower is now shedding pollen. That is, each flower is female at its first opening, male at its second. After being open several hours the second day, the flower closes again, this time for good. If it had been successfully pollinated at the first opening, and if other conditions are right, it will develop into a delicious fruit, the Avacado.
27 comments:
I didn't realize yesterday that the impromptu opportunity to click the flowers would lead to such descriptive insight. Well done!
I don’t remember seeing this flowers or fruit before... beautiful shots!
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Never knew the fascinating story!
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That is news to me... very interesting I love learnign more about plants !!! and yes a brilliant pic ! :D
I have never seen these before...fabulous and your observations are priceless!
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SueAnn
i like Avacado juice
Welcome Indrani!
Always post a fantastic posts.
I read it with great interest.
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Lucia
I know it because one of our trees, Yvon, is an avocado tree and she flowers and bear fruits every year!
Nice shots!
Fascinating post and beautiful shots.
What an unusual flower - and so lovely too.
pretty neat!
I love avocados, but never knew this about them! Fascinating indeed!! Hope you have a good week, Indrani!
from first looks, I thought it was a fig. We had a tree similar to this.
I enjoy eating avocados but have never seen its flower. Thanks for sharing it Indrani.
Wow.. I had no idea. Very cool.
Nice blog post! :-)
Greetings from The Netherlands,
DzjieDzjee
I love avocado, but I've never seen its blooms before!
I would not have thought this was an avocado plant. That's really interesting.
I too would not have guessed.
It looks like something I think I do know but can't place that at the moment.
Thanks for sharing the avocado!
Wonderful shot
Thanks for the neat pictures and the fascinating information. I didn't know any of this about the avocado blossoms.
lovely
Interesting! :)
No wonder avacados are so expensive. So interesting and creative, Mother Nature is!
Unusual and unique flowers. Thanks for the interesting info.
Avocado juice is so yummy :)
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Nice, informative post and cool clicks, Indrani:)
Beautiful
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