Wildflower Sunday – Calla palustris
On the aesthetics of processing seeds
The water arum is a plant with lots of qualities: shiny, healthy heart-shaped foliage, white swirled flowers, red fruits, AND something else you get to see only if you look for seeds: amber coloured, trembling, translucent jellyfish-like insides, protecting the slick & spotted seeds.
Nature’s art…no Photoshop involved.
Calla palustris fruits remains after extracting the seeds
Calla palustris
Wow–such great photos ! I love the additional photo of the full plant.
I’ve never seen anything quite like these “fruits”. So blobby compared to the elegant white flowers.
Thank you. I was mesmerized more by what came out from the fruits.
The fruits are actually red berries, that you see the skins, and the ‘blobby’ ambers are the ‘flesh’ of the berry holding the seeds. Interesting that they are not sticky at all, like the ‘blobs’ of other species :)
Amazing, great photos!
Thanks :)
Thanks for the introduction to this species, which I just read is the only one in its genus. Too bad it doesn’t make its way down to Texas.
Thanks for stopping by. Probably it could be cultivated there, worth a try.
I’ve chosen to photograph species that are native here, of which there are fortunately more than enough to keep me busy. When I travel I look for plants that are native in those places.
Of course and your pictures are very beautiful. We do the same but traveling is not always possible and then in the gardens there are many native species from sometime ‘inaccessible’ places.