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Street Photography: Flower on a Tree, LA, 2025

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I took a different route for my walk the other day (to the ballot box), and there, suspended from a tree, directly in front of me, was this gorgeous tree flower. When I got home, I looked it up. The beauty bush is the name of the plant this flower came from.

Street Photography: Five-Petaled Tree Flower, LA, 2025

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This flower caught my attention as I was walking by. My photo app flagged told me that is was the flower of a Silk Floss tree. It is from the tropics. The tree trunk is very thorny.

Giant Bee Getting Pollen Shower from Passionfruit

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This bee was as big as the flower! It could barely fit under the passionfruit flower pollen shower head. And it was just coated with yellow powder. (Compare the size of this bee to the one pictured here: This is How a Bee Approaches a Passionfruit Flower.) Here is a side view of these pollen […]

This is How a Bee Approaches a Passionfruit Flower

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A passionfruit flower looks like an alien landing pad (see Passionfruit Flowers). As a human, it was hard for me to look away from these unbelievable constructions. The bee, pictured below, also seemed hypnotized. The flower led it, via the purple-to-white-to-deep purple spokes, to its center. A central stalk suspends shower head-looking appendages containing pollen. […]