Friday, September 9, 2011

Focus on Hybiscus

Hybiscus is one of the flowers in the world that people tend to ignore it's beauty because it's so common. When i say ignore its beauty, i mean the details of it. Ladies tend to grab it and put it on their ear because of its color but they don't really know much about its detail. So for this blog, i will expose some of the unique beauty of this flowers so you ladies can apreciate it more than before.
You ladies like this flower because of its red pedals and its yellow seed that makes this flower more beautiful. I bet you did not know that the little yellow on this flower were its seed.


Here is one thing that I want to show that you can take it as a lesson. When you see the yellow seed, that means that it's mating time for this flower. You might say, "Well they all have yellow on it everytime i see it. That might be true, but remember that everytime you take that flower off its branch, you stop it from mating. So what's the solution for this problem? I will show you step by step and you might be interested in doing it. It gives you more activities with this flower.



Hybiscus contain two major components of its reproduction. Now, what you are looking at on top is what you call pistil. On the very tip of this pistil, it contains four round, red, and fluffy and we call that Stigma. The small straw that connects the Pistil to the Stigma is what you call Style. As you see at the bottom picture, you can see Pistil and Style.



These two parts of this flower, Stigma and Style, that's another beauty of this flower that you ladies don't really pay attention to. As you see on this picture on top and the bottom, Stigma is fluffy and Style is more like hairy. This Stigma is one of the two major part of reproductive system of this flower.


Bellow these Stigma and Style, there are what you call fillamen. There are over seventy fillament that are attached to the pistil. These fillaments contains numbers of Anther at the tip of them. Anther in a common term are the seed of Hibiscus. The bottom picture will give you the idea of what the fillament and Anthers looks like.






This is more upclose picture of Anthers. Each Fillaments contains over fifty Anthers. This is the second major part of reproductive system of Hibiscus. Anthers are not perfectly round.

They are actually more like spiky rounds. The bottom picture shows the upclose shot of Anthers.


As you know that male and female have to mate in order to reproduce another kind of theirs. Same as the flowers. The Fillament will bloom, which cause the Anthers to be fully exposed. When they are fully exposed, the wind is able to blow them to another flower. Another flower also contain Stigma, which catches those blown Anthers.



Just like this picture at the bottom. Once the Stigma catches the Anthers, the process of reproduction begins. That's why the flower keeps on blooming.

If you are one of those ladies that always picking the Hibiscus flowers, here's what you can do to help the reproduction of this flower. Get the flower that you want, and rub its Fillaments to the Stigma of another Hibiscus before you put it on your ear. Its a win win situation. You help the process of reproduction of this flower, but at the same time, you still be able to stick the flower on your ear.


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