Wedging. Cotoneaster dielsianus, Diels' Wild-quince, and Date Plum, Diospyros lotus, and a Bombus hortorum, Garden Bumblebee, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wedged under a soaring Date Plum is the low shrubbery of Diels' Wild-quince with its tiny flowers (see main photo). You can tell how small those florets are by looking at the lower right inset: there's a Garden Bumblebee wedging its proboscis into a flower. Meanwhile lots of small male flowers of our Date Plum are falling and (upper left inset) one is wedged between two pinks of that Wild-quince.
If you're curious whence that 'Diels': this particular Cotoneaster was named for Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (1874-1945) by his friend and co-explorer in the East, Ernst Georg Pritzel (1875-1946). Diels worked primarily in Berlin where his great collection of plants was housed in the still famous Botanical Garden at Berlin-Dahlem. That collection, though, was bombed out of existence by the Allies late in WWII. Incidentally, Diels was a son of the great German classicist Herman Alexander Diels (1848-1922).
Wedging. Cotoneaster dielsianus, Diels' Wild-quince, and Date Plum, Diospyros lotus, and a Bombus hortorum, Garden Bumblebee, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wedged under a soaring Date Plum is the low shrubbery of Diels' Wild-quince with its tiny flowers (see main photo). You can tell how small those florets are by looking at the lower right inset: there's a Garden Bumblebee wedging its proboscis into a flower. Meanwhile lots of small male flowers of our Date Plum are falling and (upper left inset) one is wedged between two pinks of that Wild-quince.
If you're curious whence that 'Diels': this particular Cotoneaster was named for Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (1874-1945) by his friend and co-explorer in the East, Ernst Georg Pritzel (1875-1946). Diels worked primarily in Berlin where his great collection of plants was housed in the still famous Botanical Garden at Berlin-Dahlem. That collection, though, was bombed out of existence by the Allies late in WWII. Incidentally, Diels was a son of the great German classicist Herman Alexander Diels (1848-1922).