Compositae/insect mystery

[John Nelson]

TH 10 Dec 1100h

FRIENDS

    Another mystery plant, this one for the synantherologists...Don't
know exactly where the color slides were taken:


   habit and closeup at: http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/mystery-a.JPG
                         http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/mystery-b.JPG


    I believe these to be cultivated here in South Carolina. The
plants are close to Eupatorieae, maybe close to Sachsia? Anthers
without basal appendages; foliage finely atomiferous, but a dried
piece of the plant is not aromatic.

    Note also the colorful insects on the flowers. Eating them?

        Thanks JOHN

    (My thanks to Tim Mousseau for scanning the slides)





John B. Nelson
Curator of the Herbarium (USCH)
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

nelson at sc.edu
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803-777-4002 fax

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