Sending flowers up into the sky: one of the most perfect desert hyacinths I ever saw. Cistanche phelypaea, Lanzarote, 2020. Tweet added by Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1

Chris Thorogood

6 months

Sending flowers up into the sky: one of the most perfect desert hyacinths I ever saw. Cistanche phelypaea, Lanzarote, 2020.

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Cynthia Simpson

@Scampi101

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Wondeful! Even the desert gifts us with such beauty!

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@Scampi101 😊

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APOideas

@APOideas

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 How are they pollinated? Beautiful!

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@APOideas I've seen small bees visit 👍🏼

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Alistair 🐶🚴

@Al_toMyFriends

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 It's like it's saying, "Ta-da!".

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@Al_toMyFriends Yes!

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Javier Lozano ۞

@Roldeon

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Seems far from a host plant. Which one is it parasitising?

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@Roldeon Often very far. From memory it was a Salsola

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Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺

@vortuosity

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 smell?

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@vortuosity Yes not strong but pleasing

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Simon Benson

@BotanyBenson

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Great picture! Any Chenopodiaceae nearby for it to parasitise?

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@BotanyBenson Yes Salsola from memory

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Henry Hinesley

@HenryHinesley

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Amazing and beautiful plant and photo . You allow us to see and know things we may otherwise never experience. Thank you

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@HenryHinesley Thank you Henry

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Lophophanes

@Lophophanes

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 @Hoyinature Nice - but when & why was it reclassified in Hyacinthus? 🤔 I've always thought it was a broomrape, not a hyacinth:

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@Lophophanes @Hoyinature It's Cistanche phelypaea (Orobanchaceae)

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Beach Breeze

@BeachBreeze5

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Is that sand it’s growing in?

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@BeachBreeze5 Yes

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Colette Dunkley

@sciencesub

6 months

@thorogoodchris1 Is it parasitic?

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Chris Thorogood

@thorogoodchris1

6 months

@sciencesub Yes it is

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