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After A Sacred and Happily Productive Night, Datura Is Ready To Close And Make Her Babies

Sacred Datura Trumpet Flower's Reveille, or perhaps Taps, In Sabino Canyon's Riparian Habitat

 

The creation of flowering plants, that reproduce sexually, changed Planet Earth's atmosphere and made it possible for mammals like us to exist. They make enough oxygen so that we can enjoy Nature Walks...;)) There was a fantastic show on sexual reproduction in flowering plants on PBS televise, that showed how all this works. They found the likely location of the first flowering plant in a region of China.

 

Can't find the show I am looking for... Here are a few articles:

news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8143000/8143095...

www.bbc.co.uk/nature/24331982

 

Oh, I think this is the show. It was on PBS Nova:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3S4LQrvoFs

And here:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flower/

A fascinating interview:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flower/hinkley.html

 

This flower bloomed overnight and is closing at 11:09am. The fly, I don't know the type, is likely a pollinating facilitator.

 

The presence of Sabino Canyon's stream in the midst of a dry desert environment leads to a diversity of flora and fauna that is quite unusual... I think I heard a naturalist say this canyon has the most diversity of any similar environment on our planet.

 

The Sacred Datura seems to thrive in the shade of the trees along the stream...

 

Here is one I grew in my garden for a few years, somewhat shaded by an olive tree, until a severe long lasting hard freeze killed it:

www.flickr.com/photos/80454089@N00/3085211589/

 

In this set, you can see my Sacred Datura flower unfolding completely into a trumpet flower. It took about an hour to unfold, and I succeeded in capturing the whole event...

www.flickr.com/photos/80454089@N00/sets/72157610715033463...

 

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Uploaded on December 20, 2013
Taken on December 18, 2013