Snail Flower, Snail Vine, Corkscrew Flower ( Phaseolus caracalla), a native of South America introduced to Europe and then to North America and grown

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Snail Flower, Snail Vine, Corkscrew Flower ( Phaseolus caracalla), a native of South America introduced to Europe and then to North America and grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. As blossom grows, it goes from the shape of a bean seed to a snail's shell to a mass of twisted and intertwined petals as in this image. Ants are drawn to plant's extrafloral nectaries.

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Photo credit: © Gerry Bishop / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: ant, bean, caracalla, corkscrew, extrafloral, flower, nectary, petals, phaseolus, raindrops, snail, spiral, twisted, vine, water