Visitors 71
Modified 12-Jun-24
Created 12-Jun-24
17 photos
‘Tis the season: Soap Plant is blossoming each evening. Starting at cocktail hour, 4 or 5 pm, new flowers open each day. Each flower closes by dawn, its job done; it curls up and starts generating six-fold seeds. The next night, new flowers, until the last flower has closed.
Here is the display along the Lake Trail (Trail 14) following the docent graduation at Jasper Ridge. Many flies pollinate the flowers – are they attracted by pheromones?? (I have also seen bees and other insects.)
A cloud of delicate white flowers dances as you walk along.
Elsewhere, swallows fill the air, darting and weaving. Diverse species rest on wires above the Visitors’ Parking Lot.
Searsville Lake is calm and mostly empty, save a few lone ducks: Ruddy Ducks and Wood Ducks. Water still flows over the dam, reluctantly. A bumble pollinates where it can – researchers protect other flowers from such contamination.
A pleasant walk after a friendly gathering.
Here is the display along the Lake Trail (Trail 14) following the docent graduation at Jasper Ridge. Many flies pollinate the flowers – are they attracted by pheromones?? (I have also seen bees and other insects.)
A cloud of delicate white flowers dances as you walk along.
Elsewhere, swallows fill the air, darting and weaving. Diverse species rest on wires above the Visitors’ Parking Lot.
Searsville Lake is calm and mostly empty, save a few lone ducks: Ruddy Ducks and Wood Ducks. Water still flows over the dam, reluctantly. A bumble pollinates where it can – researchers protect other flowers from such contamination.
A pleasant walk after a friendly gathering.
Dan Quinn