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Taken in our garden earlier this summer...
Eryngium (Sea Holly) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. There are about 250 species. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the center of diversity in South America. Common names include eryngo and sea holly (though the genus is not related to the true hollies, Ilex).
These are annual and perennial herbs with hairless and usually spiny leaves. The dome-shaped umbels of steely blue or white flowers have whorls of spiny basal bracts. Some species are native to rocky and coastal areas, but the majority are grassland plants.
Species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Numerous hybrids have been selected for garden use, of which E. × oliverianum and E. × tripartitum have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Many species of Eryngium have been used as food and medicine. Eryngium campestre is used as a folk medicine in Turkey. Eryngium creticum is a herbal remedy for scorpion stings in Jordan. Eryngium elegans is used in Argentina and Eryngium foetidum in Latin America and South-East Asia. Native American peoples used many species for varied purposes. Cultures worldwide have used Eryngium extracts as anti-inflammatory agents. Eryngium yields an essential oil and contains many kinds of terpenoids, saponins, flavonoids, coumarins, and steroids.
The roots have been used as vegetables or sweetmeats. Young shoots and leaves are sometimes used as vegetables like asparagus. E. foetidum is used in parts of the Americas and Asia as a culinary herb. It is similar to coriander or cilantro, and is sometimes mistaken for it. It may be called spiny coriander or culantro.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium
The bees are pretty much gone now where I live, despite some recent unseasonably warm temperatures. But they were still hanging around in mid-September when this shot was taken. It's a long lens "macro" shot, taken at 600mm and cropped relatively little.
HWW
From my archive I have this tiny treasure. Fortunate for me I was busy gathering these shots.
Happy Smile on Saturday
Smile on Saturday theme - Bee-autiful
Peering down into these blooms I found this little worker doing just what it needs to do. In the Secret Garden at the Ringling Museum and Bayside Gardens in Sarasota, FL.
Happy Smile on Saturday! I hope you have a beautiful weekend!
It's mine all mine! :-) HSoS
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They don't make it easy, those busy bees...buzzing around, hardly sitting still long enough for us to even focus on them, let alone photograph them.
This fellow, who introduced himself as Bazza (which is Aussie for Barry), was enjoying hanging around some pretty red grevilleas. I was enjoying (in a frustrated kind of way) trying to get up close and personal with Bazza. We're now the best of friends.
"smile on saturday" theme "bee-autiful
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even if the smoke from Canada's wildfires is filling the air...
I haven't seen any butterflies or birds, but the bees were happy!!
Attention à la petite thomise blanche qui se cache à la base des pétales!
Watch out for the little white crab spider hiding at the base of the petals!
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Ich bin wie ein Teil von Dir. Sagte die Hummel zur Blüte.
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... dived deep into the calyx and played hide and seek with me ;-)
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... tauchte ganz tief in den Blütenkelch und spielte mit mir Verstecken ;-)
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:2.8 / 55 mm
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