Within our society we are fixated with social media and
informing everyone on what we are doing every day. We put up pictures, statuses and comments about our selves in order to paint a picture of what we want the
world to see. There are those out there
that seek to deceive those of the online community, using false names and
images. This made me wonder about dishonesties in the wild. A desert flowering
plant offered some insight into looking beneath the surface, both
metaphorically and actually. Trailing krameria (Krameria lanceolata) are delicate pink flowing plants, with a
slight resemblance to the flowering of some Orchids. However below the arid
desert soil a network or deception pollutes the ground. This plant species is known
as a hemiparasite and obtains the majority of its nutrition from “sucking the
life” out of surrounding plants. You might say they were the root vampires of the
plant world. So although your first impressions of them are that of great beauty,
what occurs where you can’t see is far from what you imagined. Just like this enticing flower what truly lies beneath an Internet profile could be a
completely different story.
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