The Cute Flower of A Parachute Plant

Does it look like plastic to you? Well, it's for real. When I saw it I also thought that it's plastic till I got closer.

These days, it's just amazing how many tropical plants are being sold and grown indoors in this part of the earth.

This ... I'd very much like to keep it but this is actually a vine and it would be happier if grown in the ground or in a huge pot, indoors with much sun and a pergola to climb on.

I don't have such a space in my house so unfortunately, I can only enjoy this for a few days and I'd give it as a present to someone am about to visit later because they have a place to accommodate this beautiful plant and let it become the best version it could be. Looking at the bright side, I'd still keep seeing it as long as I give those people a visit.

While I was looking around for the right plant, I realized that a row of this stood in plants that are native here and some are also just tropical plants, probably imported. In my last post, I told you I believe these plants communicate with each other and I wonder whether they also bully each other like humans do.

I wonder whether the plants around it tease it for having its stems cut to look pretty, for its pot to be able to hold it and probably to let its flowers and buds stand out.

If there's one thing I notice about nature though I am aware that there are plants that are not compatible with each other and should not be planted close to each other, nature normally just live and let live.

I also wonder ... when the time comes and a plant translator would finally get invented, whether I'd ever hear plants speak ill of each other or do some mud throwing because another flower or plant has outdone them or their expectations and wants were not fulfilled like we, humans do.

Plants don't seem to complain against each other even when they accidentally get put beside a plant that could actually kill them. Are they better than we are? Who knows ...

I found a walnut growing beside a weakened apple tree and it must be the reason why the later seem to be getting sick and unhealthy. They made me realize one thing, they just both do their thing. The walnut is trying to grow to its fullest and so is the apple tree. Of course, it's up to me to dig one of them out and plant it elsewhere where it could do no other plant any harm and still fruit later.

It's the same thing with this parachute plant I suppose, whether it was bullied or appreciated for looking different and for being an alien for the plants that are native around here, it just also did its thing - grow and did everything to become its best version now and finally produce that beautiful flower up there.

If nature can manage to do just that the more that WE CAN besides, we're put to be gods and manage them, agree? .

Anyway, do you happen to know anything about this beautiful succulent? I'll throw you a 10% up if you get to guess which insect is the main pollinator of this one. You'd probably be surprised like I was when I first found out about it the first time I saw it in Bendorf Sayn many years ago.

I'll cast a 15% upvote if you explain how the pollination goes in that flower. That ... I will also have to explain to its future owner. I normally just throw the info away but these days, it's been mousy quiet since the price dropped. Hey peeps, this price drop, too ... shall pass (wink wink).

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