My Best Photographs: Radial Symmetry in Plants (Part 5)

My Best Photographs Part 5

Radial Symmetry in Plants

When any plane passing through the central axis divides the body of an organism into two equal halves then the symmetry is Radial symmetry.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Menacing terminal spikes of maguey (Agave cantala)*

Brisbane Lily (Eurycles nervosa) also called Northern Christmas Lily. 

FILIPINO: tonuar, tanual, tambal, talaunur, pana-bor, osol, katungal.

 

Anahaw is the national leaf of the Philippines. The palm tree’s scientific name is Saribus rotundifolius (formerly Livistona rotundifolia). It’s called the round-leaf fountain palm or footstool palm in English and serdang in other Southeast Asian countries.

Talisay (Terminalia catappa) is commonly called umbrella tree, because 

of the unique radial symmetry of the branching arrangement of the tree.  

Multiple pockmarks of the leaves are caused by bagworms (Cryptothelea 

fuscescens and C heckmeyeri)

Mature nuts of Adonidia merrillii Becc. Family Palmae/Arecaceae, also 

known as Bunga de China, Bunga de Jolo, Christmas palm, Manila palm.

Lemon grass or baraniw (Ilk) - Cymbopogon citratus - luxuriantly 

grows multiple stalks emanating from a central axis

Katakataka plant (Kalanchoe pinnata) is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. The species is distinctive for the profusion of miniature plantlets that form on the margins of .the leaves. Top view of the plant show a neat alternate arrangement of the leaves which generally appears as whorl. ~

 

Garden ornamental plants such as these display various radial shapes, 

many of them genuinely considered as radial symmetry. 

*Ethnobotany of maguey (Agave cantala Roxb.) in the Ilocos ...
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by AB Rotor · 1983 · Cited by 1 — The ethnobotany of maguey traces its origin, its beginnings as an industry in the Ilocos region and its importance as an indigenous substitute for imported ...
The ethnobotany of maguey traces its origin, its beginnings as an industry in the Ilocos region and its importance as an indigenous substitute for imported synthetic fibers. The possibilities of restoring the maguey's importance as an income generating crop are obvious. The maguey farmer presently must depend on other means of livelihood but the terrain and the agro-climatic conditions are right for the plant and its commercial prospects. From the journal Journal of Graduate Research (Philippines) ISSN : 0047-5742