Magnolia and the Bee
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Magnolia and the Bee
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Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_9269
Description
Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, it is theorized the flowers evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough. Fossilised specimens of Magnolia acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae dating to 95 million years ago. Another aspect of Magnolias that is considered to represent an ancestral state is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals; the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called tepals rather than distinct sepals and petals. Magnolia shares the tepal characteristic with several other flowering plants near the base of the flowering plant lineage such as Amborella and Nymphaea (as well as with many more recently derived plants such as Lilium).
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September 29th, 2014
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Oiyee At Oystudio
This is so beautiful! Now featured on group homepage of A Sense of Serenity : )
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thanks Oiyee! Appreciate being selected and featured in your SENSE OF SERENITY art group.
Jennie Breeze
Thanks Chuck! Appreciate being selected and featured in your AAA IMAGES art group.
Jennie Breeze replied:
Always a pleasure to be featured in your THE WORLD WE SEE art group. Thanks Svetlana!
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