#bignoniaceae

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Tecoma capensis…

[sillovain]

Mutant inflorescence with Fasciation. Oroxylum sp., Bignoniaceae.

[faguscarolinensis]

Bignonia capreolata / Crossvine at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Dallas, TX

[botanybyyen]

This weeks microscopy features Pandorea pandorana (Bignoniaceae), aka wonga vine! This is a climbing plant that can get over 6m high. It has gorgeous tubular flowers that are white-creamy on the outside and a deep burgundy-purple on the inside. The inside of the flower is bearded, densly hairy, on the bottom surface opposite the anthers and stigma. The anthers themselves are pressed up against the top of the tube, almost cris-crossing over the style.

This is an anther appreciation post for sure. Some plants just have super pretty anthers and I take about a million pictures of them and maybe one or two photos of everything else. This is one of those plants!

[times-of-life]

This Smells Like Garlic

Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Garlic Vine (Mansoa alliacea) climbing on a tree near the Malay Garden section of the Gardens by the Bay.

[lola1695]

Floração do Ipê Amarelo, em Macapá (AP)

Agosto, 2023

[francescointoppa]

C – Campsis radicans (L.) Bureau (= Bignonia r., Tecoma r.) – Bignonia (Bignoniaceae), nel parcheggio, visitata dalle formiche

[drhoz]

#1888 - Alucita phricodes

Photo by Katherine Owens, on a Lilly Pilly plant in SE Brisbane.

One of the Many-plumed Moths, or Alucitidae. In these moths the wing-veins, fringed with stiff hair-like scales, serve in the place of the normal wings of other moths and butterflies. I’m not sure why they’re called ‘phricodes’, since the only definition I’ve found is an obsolete medical term for a terrible fever with hallucinations, but ‘Fever-dream Moth’ is actually pretty apt.

The red caterpillars feed on the flowers and flower buds of the Bower Vine (Pandorea jasminoides), and Wonga Wonga Vine (Pandorea pandorana), in the Bignoniaceae, and the moth has been reported from Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and Victoria.