#ludwidia

(sponge bob) SQUARE PLANTS

Square is not something Nature normally trucks in with plants.  But here it is the seedbox (Ludwidia alternifolia).   A plant that is a fan of wet areas and is related to Evening Primroses.  

This winter specimen was collected by Helen Lowe Metzman who also took the photographs.  P.S. Inside this seed box are seeds, but also little seed box weevils that sometimes die in the seedbox because the hole for the seeds to come out is to small for them...we will have photos of all that...later.

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