🌴Scott Zona, Ph.D.🌴 @scottzona.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

Echinopsis chiloensis (#Cactaceae) is a large columnar #cactus in the dry regions north of Santiago. These little pink berries are NOT its fruits; they are fruits of the parasitic #mistletoe Tristerix aphylla (#Loranthaceae). Parque Nacional La Campana, #Chile. 🇨🇱

African #Psychotria camptopus has long, penduliform inflorescences, sometimes dangling a meter or more. Such inflorescences are often associated with bat pollination. Could this be 🦇 pollinated? Image: W.H. Fitch. Curtis’s Botanical Mag. (1869). #TropicalBotany #chiropterophily

What was the first plant mentioned by name in Darwin's Origin of Species?
Mistletoe (Viscum album), p. 3, Introduction. Happy #DarwinDay!

Gardens by the Bay is truly amazing! Can't wait to come back to Singapore.