Passion Flower I

Nature developed the most ingenious strategy 240 million years ago, when flowering plants succeeded in attracting animals with seductive colors, shapes and smells in order to turn them into involuntary couriers of their seed. Bees perch on the flowers to suck up the sweet nectar contained within. They automatically touch the stamens of the flower, which contain the pollen. The pollen sticks to the body of the bees, which - like many insects and birds - become seed couriers for the plant. This interaction of plants and animals caused an infinite number of flowering plants to develop on earth, which has made our planet more diverse and colorful. It’s fascinating that the astonishingly beautiful qualities of the flowers are purely survival mechanisms. I love that every flower is a dependent half of an ecosystem, and structurally, they evoke their insect counterparts.