One of South Africa’s most spectacular milkweeds is Pachycarpus grandiflorus, it makes big blotchy balloon shaped flowers that camouflage themselves perfectly within the KwaZulu natal grasslands. The plant has a special relationship with certain spider hunting wasp where it produces a nectar only palatable by the wasp and not bees, the flower has sticky pollen sacks that are hidden at a strategic point in the flower where the wasp tend to put its legs ,when the wasp drinks nectar the pollen sack
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One of South Africa’s most spectacular milkweeds is Pachycarpus grandiflorus, it makes big blotchy balloon shaped flowers that camouflage themselves perfectly within the KwaZulu natal grasslands. The plant has a special relationship with certain spider hunting wasp where it produces a nectar only palatable by the wasp and not bees, the flower has sticky pollen sacks that are hidden at a strategic point in the flower where the wasp tend to put its legs ,when the wasp drinks nectar the pollen sack
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Leon Kluge on Instagram: "One of South Africa’s most spectacular milkweeds is Pachycarpus grandiflorus, it makes big blotchy balloon shaped flowers that camouflage themselves perfectly within the KwaZulu natal grasslands. The plant has a special relationship with certain spider hunting wasp where it produces a nectar only palatable by the wasp and not bees, the flower has sticky pollen sacks that are hidden at a strategic point in the flower where the wasp tend to put its legs ,when the wasp dri
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Leon Kluge on Instagram: "One of South Africa’s most spectacular milkweeds is Pachycarpus grandiflorus, it makes big blotchy balloon shaped flowers that camouflage themselves perfectly within the KwaZulu natal grasslands. The plant has a special relationship with certain spider hunting wasp where it produces a nectar only palatable by the wasp and not bees, the flower has sticky pollen sacks that are hidden at a strategic point in the flower where the wasp tend to put its legs ,when the wasp dri
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🌻⁵☆•¹◇²■¹□¹ Balloon Plant, Hairy Balls (Gomphocarpus physocarpus) in Milkweed Family (Apocynaceae)
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🌻⁵☆•¹◇²■¹□¹ Balloon Plant, Hairy Balls (Gomphocarpus physocarpus) in Milkweed Family (Apocynaceae)
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