The Cannonball flower grows on a soft woody tree , this tree can grow up to 35 meters tall and produce up to 1,000 flowers a day when in full blooming season.
The flower itself has petals about 5 cm long with amazing colors of either yellow or red on the outside and crimson or lilac on the inside one extraordinary beautiful soft flower as elegant and pretty as a orchid flower.
The Cannonball Flower Tree originates from northeastern South America these spiral twisted branches that grow out of the tree trunk holds the flower and the cannonball fruits the fruit this tree bears can be up to about 25 cm in diameter and they look like a rusty cannonball hanging of these spiral twisting branches.
This actual cannonball fruit is edible and the one tree can produce up to about 150 of these cannonball fruits were as the smaller fruit can hold about 60 seeds the larger of the fruit can hold up to 550 seeds also the shell of this fruit like a coconut shell can be used to make utensils.
This is one of the most unusual flowers i have ever seen and also a interesting flower as it has two sets of stamens the typical fertile stamen that produces pollen capable of pollinating other flowers and the fodder staminodes which produce the non-fertile pollen that is amazing nature for you.
#amazingnature bought to you by @adalger
The flower itself has petals about 5 cm long with amazing colors of either yellow or red on the outside and crimson or lilac on the inside one extraordinary beautiful soft flower as elegant and pretty as a orchid flower.
The Cannonball Flower Tree originates from northeastern South America these spiral twisted branches that grow out of the tree trunk holds the flower and the cannonball fruits the fruit this tree bears can be up to about 25 cm in diameter and they look like a rusty cannonball hanging of these spiral twisting branches.
This actual cannonball fruit is edible and the one tree can produce up to about 150 of these cannonball fruits were as the smaller fruit can hold about 60 seeds the larger of the fruit can hold up to 550 seeds also the shell of this fruit like a coconut shell can be used to make utensils.
This is one of the most unusual flowers i have ever seen and also a interesting flower as it has two sets of stamens the typical fertile stamen that produces pollen capable of pollinating other flowers and the fodder staminodes which produce the non-fertile pollen that is amazing nature for you.
#amazingnature bought to you by @adalger