Bonus #Boraginales post: #Ehretiaceae are sister to #Cordiaceae, but Ehretiaceae lack a stylar compitum, the common transmission tissue that allows the pollen tube from any stigma to get to any ovule in either carpel within the ovary. This is Ehretia microphylla. #botany 🌱🧪🌾 #TropicalBotany

Photo of a cluster of vivid orange, funnel-shaped flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

#Cordiaceae are woody. The styles are often twice branched & have capitate stigmas. The fruits are drupes, surrounded by a persistent, accrescent calyx. This is Cordia sebestena, a showy, small tree from the Caribbean and surrounding mainlands. #Boraginales #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌱🧪🌾