Beautiful Pawpaw

Title

Beautiful Pawpaw

Artist

Paul Rebmann

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A clsoe-up of a pretty false pawpaw flower, Deeringothamnus rugelii var. pulchellus.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
Floral Photography and Art
& Flower Mania

Pretty false pawpaw is a rare endangered species, one of the two false pawpaws that are endemic to Florida. This small shrub is found primarily in flatwoods and disturbed sites in Lee and Charlotte Counties. There are also a few populations in Orange County, typically open sites that have been burned or mechanically cleared, such as powerline right-of-ways.
This plant is also called beautiful pawpaw, royal false pawpaw and white squirrel-banana. It is a small woody shrub only growing up to 30cm (about 1 foot) tall. Single flowers appear in the leaf axils, usually in April and May. The flowers are made up of two series of similar white or pale pink linear recurved petals. Both the foliage and flowers are fragrant.
Botanists disagree on if white squirrel-banana - Deeringothamnus rugelii var. pulchellus - is a subspecies of Derringothamnus rugelii - or if it is a separate species, making it Deeringothamnus pulchellus.
The species was named for Ferdinand Rugel who traveled in the southern United States in the 1840s and discovered several new species while in Florida. The genus was named by botanist John Kunkel Small in honor of his friend and patron Charles Deering.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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February 2nd, 2016

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