Euphorbia clandestina cyathia on the floor of a leaf forest

Flowers and fruits among the Euphorbia clandestina leaf-bases? This isn’t quite the way most plants market their floral food services to clients and other business associates.

The leaf alignment is even and open though. The narrow leaf-shapes present no serious impediments to pollinator flight plans when they target these cyathia. It only calls for a little pilot dexterity.

What is proven to be successful, generation after generation, is the tried and tested, continually evolving set of living systems that is nature. The building of the species never ends, all living exponents of every species participating in the shaping of their respective species. Although it may only be to die in time for not adding particular genes to the mix of the future.

Nothing in life goes as slowly as evolution. Yet it functions on the most incessant, fervent system of continual procreation. Eating other participants in the seemingly eternal game and dying like flies continually, are the main other, non-stop occupations of all the living in order to keep this life-thing on track.