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Flowers at last (reedited)

            Some striking members of the sunflower family evolved on the Hawaiian Islands from an  ancestral California tarweed that colonized these isolated Pacific islands millions of years ago. One of the most fascinating is the Haleakala silver sword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum) that grows in Haleakala Crater on the island of Maui. The leaves contain air spaces filled with a gelatinous substance that absorbs and stores large quantities of water during the intervals between rains.  This stored water is especially important when the plant blooms, because the fast-growing flower stalk requires a lot of moisture as it develops into a massive inflorescence.  Silverswords live between 3 and 90 years or more and only flower once, sending up a spectacular flowering stalk, and then die soon afterward, scattering drying seeds with the wind.
   

Taken in: United States / Hawaii / Maui (show map)

Taken on: September 20, 2014

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Argyroxiphium sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum

Haleakala National Park

HaleakalaÌ silversword

Hawaii

Hawaiian native plant

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endemic plant

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Sets appears in: • 2014-9 Hawaii, Maui

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