Saluting every life with a flower each day! Flowers are soul of the planet, blooming to play music with silent notes. Smile at them as they are sweet hearted!! Only the photographs taken by me are uplinked. I lean heavily to http://www.flowersofindia for flower identification and descriptions. Looking forward to valuable comments and suggestions.
The wild spider flower, African spider flower, cat whiskers or bustard mustard is an annual wild flower native to Africa but has become widespread in tropical and sub tropical parts of the world. It grows up to 1.5 m. Stem and leaf petioles are thickly grandular. Inflorescence is showy and upto 30 cm in length. The flowers have very long stalks and it measures 1-2.5 cm in diameter, have 4 sepals, 4 petals and 6 stamens with long purple filaments. In many parts of the world the leaf and flowers are used as food or medicine. I took this photograph near the home during my walking stroll in the morning of 25th August, 2011.
