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Community photo entitled  by Ninaw Gorenstein on 07/21/2021 at West Lafayette, IN, USA

On 07/21/2021 12:46 pm by Ninaw Gorenstein| West Lafayette, IN, USA

Blue petals and looking like a small yellow-brown flowers sterile stamens of an asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis). Below them on the left are long "true" stamens with anthers, and on the right is a pistil. According to Wikipedia, the blue petals has been used to produce blue dye for a long time in Japan. In China and India, the plant is used as medicinal herb and as a vegetable and fodder crop.

Nikon Coolpix P900

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