The Incredible Crotalaria Plant: Flowers Resembling Hummingbirds_Lt

   

The Incredible Crotalaria Plant: Flowers Resembling Hummingbirds_Lt

You’ve undoubtedly met creatures that can imitate plants, other animals, and their surroundings. What about plants, though? Sure, there are numerous plants that have these 

Otherwise, we can’t tell whether it’s an example of camouflage, morphological coincidence, or simply our imagination playing tricks on us (pareidolia).

In any case, some species in the genus of flowering plants called crotalaria draw people’s attention to the similarity of their blooms with hummingbirds. At a certain point in the flowering stage, their petals get the shape of this bird. Simply fantastic!

Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
Image credit: Atlas of Living Australia.
Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
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Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
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Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
Image credit: D. Blumer.
Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
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Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
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Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone
Image credit: Romer Rabarijaona.
Crotalaria: the incredible plant with flowers that look like hummingbirds - Art Zone