Saturday, May 10, 2025

Ocotillo Blossom


This photograph of a blossom on an Ocotillo was taken maybe 30 feet from the photo of the plant I did yesterday.  Is this astounding or what!  Look at all the stuff that is going on in this blossom.  I went back and looked at yesterday's photo more carefully and I think I can see some yellowish things on the tips of some of those branches.  Notice in this photograph, behind the bright red parts are yellow parts.  I found this blossom on a smaller plant and it is only about4 feet off the ground.


This gives a good sense of where the blossom is located


And here is the smaller plant but the blossom is not showing.  I looked at the original photograph which is much larger, and there seem to be yellowish blossoms on the ends of most of these branches.  What amazing things I discovered when I looked at an individual plant instead of the whole landscape and then when I examine just one branch! I also discovered that Ocotillos reach their maturity in 60 to 100 years!  Wow they outlast us!





 

2 comments:

  1. Very pretty flower head but odd that its stem is so long for one blossom. 60 60 100 years is crazy.

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  2. The flower is so unusual but I love the color. Betsey

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