MAKE A MEME View Large Image Buttonbush-flowers.jpg Cephalanthus occidentalis flowers each spherical item is a 1 3-inch wide cluster of many flowers If you look closely at the white cluster you can see the individual flowers which are white and very slender Each tiny ...
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Keywords: Buttonbush-flowers.jpg Cephalanthus occidentalis flowers each spherical item is a 1 3-inch wide cluster of many flowers If you look closely at the white cluster you can see the individual flowers which are white and very slender Each tiny flower bears at its top four petal-like lobes sometimes five and four stamens rarely five protruding from the corollas In the picture the stamens are topped with very small oval brownish anthers which open to release pollen The stiff-looking white sticklike things below the anthers are the stamens' filaments JIM CONRAD'S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER Written and issued at the woods edge near Natchez Mississippi http //www backyardnature net/n/08/080623 htm http //www backyardnature net/n/08/080623bb jpg 2008-06-23 Jim Conrad Jim Conrad See http //www backyardnature net/j/copyrite htm Cephalanthus occidentalis
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