Geissorhiza erosa colour change

If you don’t like my colour, I have others! Many flowering plants can offer that statement. Geissorhiza erosa has its range of white, cream, red and purple flower colours, sometimes ending in almost black before they die. The plant’s versatility is matched (or honoured) by its botanical name changes, including G. hirta, G. inflexa, G. rosea and more, inflicted by humanity in its search for exact knowledge and precise description.

And there may be more colours to come: As global warming hits the Western Cape, the lighter colours are likely to predominate and may even diversify, as James Lovelock explained in his Gaia Hypothesis, impacting on Daisyworld.

Nature prefers the adapting of species over their dying. She has achieved much, check the species diversity in our era and their countless transformations following living conditions over more than three thousand million years on earth. All individual specimens in all species are, however, the short term expendables of her system. She achieves her results by countless deaths timed early or late, i.e. babies or no babies.