Cleome Hassleriana
Delicate petals
Spidery stamens
Hovering insect
The aesthetic appeal of a flower is inextricably linked to its function and its evolutionary history.
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” – Charles Darwin