Gabe15

Here are photos of M. basjoo with pollen from a mat I found in a neighborhood in West Hollywood, California. It was a short plant, only about 2m. It also looks like some of the fruits could be fertilized but it is a little difficult to tell for sure.








And also here is a photo of M. basjoo at the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, Florida. It has an interesting shape I have not seen in other M. basjoo, and it also very green. It was taken with my old camera which was not very high resolution so I cannot zoom in on it to observe pollen as with my other photo. If you look closely though, it appears that the anthers are white and so maybe there could be some pollen.



I have some photos as well of the tall M. basjoo at The Huntington in San Marino, California, but none are close enough to see if there is pollen present.

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