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This species usually flowers reliably every winter,
but this year only one shoot is ready to flower.
In a couple more weeks the bracts will turn hot pink
and skinny tubular purple flowers will peek out.
Like T. paucifolia, caput-medusae is a myrmecophyte:
ants colonize the swollen leaf bases and protect the plant.
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Bill Miller | 04-May-2005 15:29 | |
Karen Leaf | 18-Mar-2005 03:21 | |
SP Merrill | 17-Mar-2005 04:32 | |
Herb | 17-Mar-2005 04:15 | |