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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Glowing Kalanchoe Close-upI have been having a lot of fun with my plants and cameras lately. This flower is less than a quarter of an inch across. When you see it normally as just one in a cluster of flowers (called an inflorescence) the colors look continuous. Fading from red to yellow. However, on closer inspection you can see the speckled nature of the color like the printed page in a magazine. |
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Purple Geranium Flowers This looks like a field of purple flowers. But they are
actually all on the same plant. This is the top of a
"Geranium maderense" it is a wild plant that has big
leaves on long stems with a large spherical inflorescence
of these beautiful purple flowers (as you can see at the right).The plant is a biennial, the first year you only see the interesting leaves. The flowers (and resulting seeds) come the second year. After that the plant usually dies. Fortunately, it re-seeds easily and can even have pups come up from the roots. Unfortunately this guy was not for sale, he was just the display plant. But I did bring home his little brother. :-D This, and a VERY cool Ginkgo bonsai tree are the reasons I waited to get yesterday's cactus at the succulent show! |
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Saturday, December 2, 2006
Miniature BoquetIt's really interesting what you find when you look close enough at something ordinary. Clover flowers that you can step on without a second thought take on an amazing beauty under the right light. This one almost looks like a bouquet of some exotic orchids. Coincidentally, what we would consider a "clover flower" is in fact a collection of small flowers. This type of structure is called an "inflorescence" in botanical terms and it is actually more common than you might realize. Once things drop below a certain size our eyes take them as one structure. But the camera helps reveal the truth. |
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006
The Agapanthus are Coming!There are a lot of Agapanthus around our home and they are looking like they are about to burst! I took this one today on a walk with The Hound.My botanist tells me that Agapanthus is derived from the Greek word "agapé" meaning love and "anthos" meaning flower. And for those really interested in the botany, the group of flowers all radiating from the center with equal length "pedicles" (or individual flower stalks) is called an "umbel." An umbel is a kind of "inflorescence," which is a botanical term referring to a group or cluster of flowers and specifically the structure of that group. Ahhh the Internet, what can\'t it teach you? |
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Backlit AgapanthusLast week, when I was loading my Jeep for a show, I was fortunate enough to catch the sun at a great angle on our little front yard area. On a Saturday my Hound Dog and I would have still been quite unconscious at this time.This is a variety of Lily native to South Africa. It grows like wild around here, and it's beautiful when they really get going. |
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