I thought this photo was appropriate for Valentine’s day because it has flowers, it’s about reproduction, and it’s red. It comes from reader Don, who notes, “Our dawdling amaryllis has finally bloomed.”
A botanical valentine
February 14, 2015 • 2:00 pm
His dawdling amaryllis is way ahead of anything I’ve got.
Plant sex organs – erotic for plants, strangely appealing for humans. 🙂
Indeed, and I have a pistil in my pocket. Or am I just happy to see you? You shall have my anther tomorrow.
Nice one, Grass.
There’s no stigma; if plant’s are your style, so bee it.
Yes, not at all seedy.
Nothing a-pollen about it.
Blooming right!
You said it, pod-ner!
Fighting prejudice takes great stamina.
Stamena.
But why quibble over stamentics?
+++to both D’s🌺
Yes instead see from where the mistake stems.
Moar moar moar:-)
“Yes instead see from where the mistake stems.”
Indeed. Look for the root cause.
And once you do, the person will really flower.
They mycorrhizae from the dead!
Jesus, after that word, I should give up and leaf.
Just umbel off into the sunset.
I’ll petal my bike.
will it ever end;-)
We’ll see, pal.
I’ll have to dream up some good rejoinders. Where’s Ant in all this punnery?
Direct him here, please. Tell him to come post.
I see you’re all going with the phloem.
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PS. Don’r get into the habit of thinking that if you just ax, I’ll come.
Only stamens and no styles? No reproduction happening here.
Yes, I was hoping for a nice sticky glistening style.
Stigma! I blame the cat in my lap.
Beautiful. It’s appropriate for Chinese New Year too which comes up on Feb 19.
Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, would have approved of your pic, Jerry.
Erasmus Darwin had his own theory of evolution, and he tried to educate the public about it, expressing his ideas with what some have called execrable poetry to rival that of the Vogons, during the late 1700s, in a work entitled The Botanic Garden.
And in a passage from his book Zoomania, he presages his grandson’s idea of descent with modification with
“Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end![6]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin
stupendously beautiful pic
I received a Valentine card from the cats. On the outside it says – Happy Valentine’s Day. Inside it says – you’re in my chair.
Funny!
One cannot get enough of Amaryllis. What a delightful and appropriate image for Valentine’s. Thank you and Happy Valentine’s to all!
Very raunchy, but artistic! 😉
It is curious how some sexual attractors (say flowers or some paradise birds feathers) are attractive to us too.
But it is not general rule: the butt of a female chimp in heat would not attract many human males (well, I suppose, not tested :)).