Today’s mystery seeds are hidden within these fruit.
It’s a common plant, grown for its flowers.
Hint: it isn’t a blueberry.
Have you seen these blue fruit before? Do you know the name of the plant?
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Month: November 2011 (Page 5 of 6)
Our mystery seeds with wings last week came from a shrub commonly called yellow bells
, Tecoma stans.
Yellow bells are native to the Southwest and grow throughout the South. The plants are drought and heat tolerant and are one of the few that bloom profusely through the hot summers here in Arizona.
The bright yellow, tubular flowers attract bees and hummingbirds.
The plants are somewhat susceptible to frost damage, but will generally grow back in the spring.
You can often see the seed pods hanging from the shrub. You can readily grow new plants from the seeds.
I will show you who else likes yellow bells for Bug of the Week tomorrow. Can you spot it?
Do yellow bells grow where you live?
I had a lot of interesting bugs to choose from this week.
The winner was this tiny, orange-winged dragonfly. It is only about an inch long.
It is a Mexican amberwing, Perithemis intensa.
This one was hovering in the air and then darting away.
It was hovering over a manmade waterfall.
Maybe someday soon I’ll get to go back and get a photograph of one sitting still.
Do you have amberwings where you live?
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