Rising Tide Images
White Eye
A mejiro nectar sipping from banana flowers. Botanically considered a berry, the banana produces a flower at the end of each finger. Despite the magnificent blossom, the domesticated banana plant cultivars (Musa sp.) propagate asexually from offshoots. However, the flowers remain a food source for nectar sipping birds like this mejiro (Zosterops japonicus), or Japanese white-eye.
White Eye
A mejiro nectar sipping from banana flowers. Botanically considered a berry, the banana produces a flower at the end of each finger. Despite the magnificent blossom, the domesticated banana plant cultivars (Musa sp.) propagate asexually from offshoots. However, the flowers remain a food source for nectar sipping birds like this mejiro (Zosterops japonicus), or Japanese white-eye.