Feeed meeee!

in #monochromes6 years ago

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These hungry little mouths look like highly magnified insect parts in black and white.
Called Stomatium, which derives from the Greek word stoma, meaning mouth, these little mesemb succulents are about to flower. You'll miss the flowers if you look for them during the day though, the flowers only open when the sun goes down, because the flowers are pollinated by moths. They stay open until around midnight.

This is the plant in natural colour. The straight shapes are the closed flowers, which will open later.

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Beautiful !!!
In natural color, as if they are shining!
I like them!

They are really cute

I'm really liking your black and white photos, they look really artistic. This succulent is really amazing the way it flowers at night, and the moths pollinate them.

Thank you

I love the black and white

Just like a fantastic movie, where plants swallow those who sit on them.

I wish I had such a plant!

what a pitty about flowers, one of mine do the same,,, just one day :/ but they're so beauty! heheh have a nice weekend nikv! :)

Thank you and same to you

Are the spines on the leaf edges as sharp as they look?

No, they aren't sharp (hard) at all

Why do I want to stick my finger in there?...

Only you can answer that ;)

What is this sir i see first time

interesting post, it includes what type of plant

They look scary in black and white!