Category Archives: Plantains

New Plantain Flower, Early Fruit

DSC00716 My newest plantain flower.DSC00716 - Copy  If you look carefully, you can see a couple of bees, which is reassuring.

DSC00714 Another picture of my flower with little plantainlets.  This makes it clear that both male and female parts of the plantain live closely together.

DSC00932 This is the same flower two weeks later than the above pictures.  There are four “hands” of plantains.  This plant does not shade my garden, so I will leave the plant standing for awhile.  It has become fallish today.  The temperature is only in the mid-60s.