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Nolina palmeri

While some species of Nolina have stout woody trunks, others do not develop a trunk at all, looking more like clumps of grass. Nolina palmeri, from northern Baja California, is one of the latter (not to be confused with N. palmeri var. brandegeei, which does form a trunk and occurs farther south on the peninsula). As with all Nolina species, there are separate male and female plants, and the pollen seen in the flower shot shows that this one is a male. The flowers are tiny, as can be seen from the ant visible in the lower left of the photo.

-Brian

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