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  Scarlet Passion Flower

 

Thailand

The Scarlet Passion Flower has flowers with red petals and white-purple corona filaments, that surround the elongated floral axis.

 

The floral axis is topped by the ovary, from which sprout three purplish styles with stigmas that consist of lobe-like pads, with a whitish tip.

 

  Scarlet Passion Flower

 

These stigmas grow facing downward. At its bottom, the flower's ovary is surrounded by the purplish filaments of the stamen, which have greenish to yellow anthers.

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