This is a beautiful and usual flower. They are rather common around South Florida but taking the time to draw and paint one made me appreciate them so much more. I looked it up on wikipedia and found this little bit of interesting information.
"They are pollinated by sunbirds, which use the spathe as a perch when visiting the flowers; the weight of the bird on the spathe opens it to release the pollen onto the bird's feet, which is then deposited on the next flower it visits."
Pretty cool, eh?
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