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We saw this lovely tree on the shoreline at Cape Tribulation. The flowers last just a day before their petals fall. I took this particular photo because I liked the way the fallen petals exposed the colourful reproductive structures – I’m always on the lookout for images to use in my lectures.<\/p>\n

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This reminds me that Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus, wrote a long poem<\/a> about plants which talked about their reproductive features in what was probably regarded as fairly salacious in its time. Take this verse<\/a>, for example (the words in capitals are genus names):<\/p>\n

"With vain desires the pensive ALCEA burns\/And, like sad ELOISA, loves and mourns.\/The freckled IRIS owns a fiercer flame,\/And three<\/i> unjealous husbands wed the dame.\/CUPRESSUS dark disdains his dusky bride,\/One <\/i>dome contains them, but two<\/i> beds divide."<\/p>\n

Erasmus’ metaphors makeit sound as if he’s talking about all sorts of hanky-panky – but under it all he’s talking about the arrangement of stamens & carpels & how their number & arrangement relates to plant taxonomy a la Linnaeus. I fear my lectures are quite staid by comparison!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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