Sunday, August 17, 2008

"Mountain Pride Butterflies"


Butterfly filled mountains full
Wizzing wizzing through the blooms
Ah the array of colors they possess
They excite even the shrooms

Morpho blue from blue he flew
Yellow with the slightest hue
Green greener could make cows’ mooo
Grey ever so unsurely true

Disa uniflora and her red flowers
The butterflies even stare for hours
The red is what they are attracted to
To what that leads to they don’t have a clue

The dance they perform is magnificently colorful
Pinks with the purplish grey so strong it sings
Higher than yellow and majestically pale
All shades of white never fail.

Unicorn green to snowfall sheen
Colors full of colors never seen
The moment seized the insect returns
Another hour after hour through mile after mile
All this it does to make man smile? What does u think?
Flowers of the orchid Disa uniflora are pollinated exclusively by the Mountain Pride butterfly (Meneris tulbaghia: Salyrinae). The genus Disa has undergone spectacular adaptive radiation in southern Africa. Phylogenetic analysis shows that shifts from one pollination system to another have been a major feature of evolutionary diversification in this genus

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