Can’t get any fresher than this:Â the seeds are still on the plant.
Any guesses what plant these prickly seeds might grow into?
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Year: 2010 (Page 18 of 70)
Those rather plain mystery seeds from last week grow into a plant with spectacular flowers.
The Datura (also called jimsom weed and other common names) grows wild here in Arizona. You can often see it along the roadsides.
Although beautiful, Datura plants are members of the nightshade family, and contain poisonous chemicals.
The gorgeous white, tubular flowers are open mostly at night. Does this give you any ideas as to what might pollinate it?
The queen butterflies are visiting our desert milkweed plants again.
The female queens are laying eggs on the flower buds, which are apparently a favorite food of the caterpillars.
The eggs are often laid in pairs.
Today they’ve started to turn dark. Does that mean they are going bad?
No, it means the eggs are going to hatch soon…
…into one of these caterpillars, which will turn…
…into one of these beauties!
For photographs of a queen butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, check this previous post.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.