When researchers scaled up and down steep mountain slopes to install video cameras in the trees in
which these flowers grow, they caught the plants offering a sugar - packed reward to visiting birds: the bellows organ, a bulbous, brightly colored appendage high in sugar and citric acid,
which is attached to the plant's male reproductive organ, or
stamen.
like mutant sunflowers, each example of
which boasts its own unique variant of meaty petals and tumescent
stamens, they are opportunities for a practiced painterly hand to improvise within self - imposed limitations of form.»