 These seeds are still wearing bits of the leftover flower.
Here’s a better look:
Do you recognize what plant these seeds are from? If you choose to, please leave a comment with your ideas.
New mystery seeds and Seed of the Week answers are posted on Tuesdays.
Edit:Â The answer is now posted.
Our mystery seeds from last week were from a cyclamen flower, genus Cyclamen.
Cyclamens are known for their brightly colored flowers with petals that sweep upwards.
They are grown as houseplants and ornamentals throughout the world, but are native to the regions around the Mediterranean Sea.
Usually they are grown from tubers, but the flowers do produce fruit in the form of seed pods that contains brown, sticky seeds.
The stems of the plant coil in a very unusual way, bringing the seed pods down to the ground. You can see bits of the coiled stem in the photograph above.
There is a better photograph of the seed pods at Wikimedia. Notice the seeds on the ground at the left.
According to what I read, the seeds are often picked up and dispersed by ants.
Have you ever grown cyclamen plants?
Isn’t it striking how the bronze-colored blow fly matches the nasturtium?
Doesn’t it look like fine jewelry?
Too bad the fly’s lifestyle doesn’t match its appearance.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.
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