The Okra Flower in full bloom
Getting a good shot of the the Okra Plant flower can be a little difficult if you don't visit your garden often. This is simply because they bloom for a short period before falling off. In fact, within a day, the flower could be gone.
Luckily for me, as I took a walk in my backyard garden, I found one and decided to write about their life cycle as I walked around the garden.
As I continued the walk, I was able to capture another one here..
The Okra flower is in the same family as the Hibiscus and may be mistaken for it.
Okra/Okro is a vegetable plant quite common in the tropics, West Africa to be particular. It is is commonly grown in the Southwestern part of Nigeria.
Many people probably just know the plant for it's soup and pay less attention to its flowers.
I also saw some buds about to grow into a flower. They could grow and wither so fast that I might not catch them..
Then I saw a flower which had passed its bloom period and was about to fall. It looked withered..
And then there was one that had fallen on the pavement, going to rot away...
The end result of flowers are fruits and/or seeds. The fruit of the Okra is what is eaten as the vegetable...
If the fruit is not plucked on time, it begins to dry off. At this point if you shook it, you would hear the seeds rattle inside.
One could decide to pluck them at this point and plant the seeds
But if you don't do so, they also rot away. The seeds fall out to the soil and grow again... Or birds eat the seeds off the plant.
And thus ends my Amazing Nature Walk!
Hope you enjoyed it.
| Camera | Panasonic Lumix GH4 |
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| Lens | G Vario 35-100mm at ISO 400-1600 F4.0-7.0 |
| Remastering | Samsung Mobile Image Editor |
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