'Hairy' plant related to cucumber

BY JOHN NELSON - Curator, USC Herbarium
Posted 3/20/11

Are you looking for a very strange flower? Well, this one's for you.

Now the scientific name for this oddball, which comes from Greek, means "hairy flower." And why not? The six fused petals making up the corolla are white and deeply fringed, …

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