Peter Dexter
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From an enjoyable exploratory hike in Colombian cloud forest. Restrepia contorta.
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Asher Kelman
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That is very attractive and sensuous.
Is that curvy higher very thin strand of a petal functional or vestigial?
Asher
Is that curvy higher very thin strand of a petal functional or vestigial?
Asher
Peter Dexter
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The consumption of energy in plants is important so one would suppose it is functiona.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Exactly, Peter,
Any such structure, (with decreasing benefit to survival), gets minimal resources and shrinks to get the plant a competitive advantage over other variants.
So now, as an extraordinarily thin wisp of a leaf in your photograph, is it “highly selected” and advantageous? Or perhaps now a vestigial non-functional remnant. How can we know? Study of variants versus the pollinators and ecosystem might have already been done?
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Dr Klaus Schmitt
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simply beautiful!
Steven Dillon
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I think I see a very nice abstract pattern on the surface. Probably not going to find one of those around here though. :-(
Peter Dexter
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Yes the pattern got my attention when I enlarged the image. It's a very small flower. I don't know if there are any Restrepias in the US.