USVI Native Plant
Cynophalla flexuosa
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| Cynophalla flexuosa at Brewers Bay on St. Thomas, USVI, June 17, 2020. |
This sprawling woody plant is common in the coastal forest of St. Thomas.
Its leaves vary in shape, but its flowers are rather distinctive. If you are observing the forest along the beach during the morning hours, you may notice the long filaments of the flower sticking out several centimeters beyond the greenish petals. Like other members of the Capparaceae family, the ovary is also suspended far from the petals on a long stalk (gynophore).
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