Africa - of flowers and bats by busi2ness
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Description
The Baobab tree (lives up to 4,000 years, circumference 90 feet = 28m) is part of a sacred symbiotic relationship with the Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat for pollination. Its flowers open soon after sundown and produce abundant nectar at the base of each petal. They typically are visited by bats immediately after opening, dropping their showy petals by morning.
What you see here, is not only the petals dropped, but for some reason the whole flower. One never really has the privilege of seeing the flower at close range, as it hangs at a height of 30 feet.
So, if the bat goes, the tree goes! It makes you think, heh?
Look at a friend's site for a similar story on the Joshua tree in the USA.
I hope you found this exciting!
Comments (26)
Very beautiful!!!!!!!Great info about the tree too:)))
FANTASTIC!!! very impressiv color and natural texture... I like very much these color... excellent done my friend!!! Good evening and kiss ;)
This is something and really beautiful. The Bats are out in force at nights looking for a meal. That center part reminds me of the guawa flower plant. Excellent job. Aloha
Very nice picture. I've never seen any flower like that until I saw your photo. This relationship between plants and animals is amazing isn't it?
Such a cool looking....flower is it??? Looks like a mushroom with a funky looking hair-do, lol. Excellent macro with perfect POV. Have a great day. #:O)
Great to get interesting and useful info along with this well-composed image.
Once a favorite haunt of heavily armed, very dangerous poachers.... the tree, not the flower...
What an extraordinary foto of a subject mostly unknown to most people. Amasing!!!!!
Every picture has a tale to tell, amasing capture and usefull info!
So interesting... very fine pic !
Superb photo! Thanks for the lesson and for sharing!!
An amazing shot and nice to learn more about the Baobab tree.
The nature is beautiful as amazing!! This is a rare vision... thanks for sharing! The photo is fantastic!!!
so lovely. I never saw anything like this
it is so beautiful that seems pretended
A beautiful shot ! and very interesting to see how the baobab reproduced himself ! Then the bats do their work ? lol ! INcredible this flower, and thank you for all this informations about it. Great job ! V
Oh wow, completely stunning work, both the capture and the story! Fantastic to see it here, very impressive! :)
I love Baobabs, didn't even know that they grew flowaers! Tx for teaching me something new!
never seen such kind of flower, very interesting
i have heard of the name but don't think i've ever seen one.. till now.. if i were a bat i would be most attracted :]
I found this very exciting. Interesting story and wonderful flower photo...now show us the tree! =]
It seems a bristle the other way around!. Impressive that flower of Baobab!. A great work!!! Hugs! V
gorgeous flower !!... good job
Thanks for the education and this great picture.
Superb capture of this incredible flower!! Great job here. I have seen somehthing I never did see before. Thank you PTA!! I love bats... I do :-) They have wings like whispers ;-) Hugs. Di.
What a splendid lesson! Thank you teach!! I will always remember this!!