Flower of the Day – November 21 – Lantana and a Guest.

This Spring Down Under has seen some of my best blooms for a while, as my winter brought more than it’s usual share of rainfall and we’ve had very little in extreme weather so far. Perfect growing conditions! 😉

The lantana are outdoing themselves and a tiny, cute but uninvited guest seems to  appreciate them as much as me.

A lantana flower is fairly small, considering it is really a bunch of 30-40 flowerettes. Each flowerette is a little trumpet shape with a cone around 5mm ( <1/4 in) in diameter. The white sphere she is carrying on her back is her egg sac which will soon release hundreds of nearly microscopic off-spring. Very few will survive to maturity – which i think is a pity. But Mother Nature knows best! 😉

(Click on the pics to open in a new window and click again to see full size detail) 🙂

The original pic:

One of my other lantana showing off to the max this year. 🙂

link to:

Cee’s Flower of the Day – November 21, 2018 – Dahlia

.

.
love.