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Image Title: Balanophora fungosa - female flowers
Image Credit: Sherwin Carlquist
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The female flowers on the top half of this flowering stalk of Balanophora fungosa are unbelievably small--they just look like a grains of a white powder. The male flowers have petal-like structures (brownish in color) surrounding the white pollen-bearing portions.

Return to the Balanophora fungosa page or the Parasitic Plant Index.

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