Seed Pods A'Plenty

If you visit Miami in the Summer, you will see many, many, many royal poinciana trees in bloom. They are mostly red, thus earning the name "flamboyant" tree. But they come in all shades from orange to dark red. Of course, my favorite ones are the rarer yellow variance. This is a royal poinciana, just about to grow new leaves to prepare for the color show in June. This shot may give you a clue as to how we have so many of this tree species in Miami. They produce an enormous amount of seed pods. They propagate so easily and can grow from nothing to a large tree in only a few years. I know, I have four such trees in my backyard when I had my back turned away and they sneaked in without warning.

It's Pregnant

This was fast! In the last days of December last year, I got a new vine and later learned of its name "Dalechampia Dioscoreifolia"

After a rash of many flowers, this vine now carries a number of seed pods. It turned out that every single flower was pollinated and this photo shows that this particular flower produced three seed pods that came from the three tiny orange female flowers. The bees must have been very busy when I was not looking.