Spiderwort
Tradescantia sp. · Garden flowers
Spiderwort
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 29 May 2025
Deep violet-blue petals around a cluster of stamens whose filaments are visibly hairy under magnification.
Those hairs are a single cell wide, and the movement of the cytoplasm inside them is easy to see under a simple microscope, which made spiderwort one of the first plants used to show students that a living cell is not still. Each flower lasts a single morning and dissolves into a blue jelly by afternoon.
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