False Inflorescence

Living with Nature Garden

False Inflorescence

Dr Abe V Rotor

Deceiving flowers - but for what reason?

Fancy though elegant looking; 

Nature's full of conceit, deceit, and joke

to the unwary and unbelieving.

Bougainvillea atop Norfolk Pine

Bees and butterflies are attracted

     to flowers they pollinate,

       perceive their colors and patterns

     as those of a host or mate.

 

Spike inflorescence of a fortune plant.

Rise up with a star growing in your garden,

     and meet the sun every morning;

a symbol of luck need not the real thing;

     just think of a little corner of Eden.

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues 

all the utilities of the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson