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Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia /
Vindobonae :Ex officina Krausiana,1763
On a solo sunrise trip to Botany Bay Plantation in Edisto Beach, SC I came across this mystery horse on my way out. As you can see it was very thin, but other than that it seemed to be moving around well. I tried finding someone to ask about it, but no one was around. It walked up to me and then walked away.....so surreal. I will always wonder what happened to it.
inspired by books by india flint- Eco Dyeing and Second Skin-
this is silk dupioni dyed with eucalyptus leaves! still wet but so beautiful!
Virgin plane taking off.
Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (Mascot Airport, Kingsford Smith Airport, or Sydney Airport;) is an international airport located 8 km (5 mi) south of Sydney city centre, in the suburb of Mascot. It is the primary airport serving Sydney, and is a primary hub for Qantas, as well as a secondary hub for Virgin Australia and Jetstar Airways. Situated next to Botany Bay, the airport has three runways, colloquially known as the east–west, north–south and third runways.
Sydney Airport is both the longest continuously operated commercial airport and oldest commercial international airport in the world, the world's oldest continually operating commercial airport, and the busiest airport in Australia. Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport, sits on northwestern side of Botany Bay. Two runways of the airport extend into the bay.
Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 miles) south of the Sydney central business district.
Botany Bay has its source in the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cooks River at Kyeemagh and flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth, the Tasman Sea, midpoint between La Perouse and Kurnell.
The total catchment area of the bay is approximately 55 km2 (21 sq mi) and the area surrounding the bay is generally managed by Roads and Maritime Services. Despite its relative shallowness, the bay serves as greater metropolitan Sydney's main cargo seaport, located at Port Botany, with facilities managed by Sydney Ports Corporation.
Botany Bay National Park is located on the northern and southern headlands of the bay.
On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia. Later the British planned Botany Bay as the site for a penal colony. Out of these plans came the first European habitation of Australia at Sydney Cove. Even though the penal settlement was almost immediately shifted to Sydney Cove, for some time in Britain transportation to "Botany Bay" was a metonym for transportation to any of the Australian penal settlements.
The first container terminal at Port Botany, to the east of the airport, was completed during the 1970s, and is the largest container terminal in Sydney. A second container terminal was completed during the 1980s and bulk liquid storage facilities are located on the northern and southern edge of the bay. A third container terminal was completed in 2011.
The western shores of the bay feature popular swimming beaches including Brighton-Le-Sands and Lady Robinsons Beach and is a popular spot for boating and watersports.
Botany Bay Plantation is a 4,630 acre Wildlife Management Area located on the northeast corner of Edisto Island, South Carolina
Botany Herbarium specimens stacked in cabinets and on tables, radiator, light fixture, skylights. 2nd floor gallery area, Field Columbian Museum. Wooden herbarium cases designed by Dr. Charles Millspaugh. 1912.
Original size and material: 5x7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSB34823
Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/
Vase with Floral Design. Qing dynasty, Quanlong period, 1735-96. Jingdezhen ware; porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Mark on base, in underglaze blue: “Danqing Yongzheng nian zhi.”
This vase is beautifully thrown. It looks like the top of a flowering stem or bud (which may or may not have been intentionally conceived this way). The forms’ similarity to a bud is emphasized by the location a ring that is painted towards the upper portion of the bowl with tufted leaves (as if a sleeve to something within). It illustrates a types of sleeved layering that we see in plants; (organic) forms pushing their way past enveloped walls growing outward as though emerging from wombs. The vase is decidedly apical, and like many plants, its apex is marked and unique from everything else (shown here a red ring). Like the bowl, it is inherently biomorphic (round in two directions), and symmetrically distinct with equally spaced apart artwork like a flower. The flowers are much less abstract and though I am vaguely familiar with the type of petal formations and colors being represented, I cannot say what type of flower(s) they are. Although there is a type of truthfulness to the painted flowers, I believe the arrangement (and perhaps configuration) is fantastic because everything seems to be defying gravity!
The Singapore Botanic Gardens
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 161-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Botanic Gardens has been ranked Asia's top park attraction since 2013, by TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards. It was declared the inaugural Garden of the Year, International Garden Tourism Awards in 2012, and received Michelin's three-star rating in 2008.
The Botanic Gardens was founded at its present site in 1859 by an agri-horticultural society. It played a pivotal role in the region's rubber trade boom in the early twentieth century, when its first scientific director Henry Nicholas Ridley, headed research into the plant's cultivation. By perfecting the technique of rubber extraction, still in use today, and promoting its economic value to planters in the region, rubber output expanded rapidly. At its height in the 1920s, the Malayan peninsula cornered half of the global latex production.
The National Orchid Garden, within the main gardens, is at the forefront of orchid studies and a pioneer in the cultivation of hybrids, complementing the nation's status as a major exporter of cut orchids. Aided by the equatorial climate, it houses the largest orchid collection of 1,200 species and 2,000 hybrids.
Taken in the Piazza Bra.
It was a gray, chilly, and rather depressing day, but the sight of this magnificent specimen looming up through the fog buoyed my soul. I'd seen smaller Cedars of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) in gardens, but never any of this size or maturity.
If you visit Verona nowadays—or do a virtual check of Piazza Bra on Google Earth—you'll see this tree is still there, grander than ever. It amazes me that those great lateral branches can be both so massive and so far-spreading. What a feat of organic engineering.
At left rear is a portion of the Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheater completed in AD 30, during the reign of Tiberius. It remains a major event venue today.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Trees of Italy album.
I collected this Shaggy Ink Cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus) from a lawn in eastern Lake County, Illinois, and left it on a sheet of paper for about 24 hours. This is the result.
The species does not reproduce in the conventional manner—by shedding its spores into air currents under the gills. Rather, its cap dissolves into black, tarry goo that gradually drips its spores onto the ground nearby. This process of mushroom-suicide-by-melting is known a deliquescence.
Shaggy Ink Caps are well adapted to the suburban environment, and often sprout in interesting and sometimes humorous places. I once found a crop of them growing merrily away in the medium of prizewinning cultivated orchids, on display in a top-line Chicagoland greenhouse.
In my academic days, they also obligingly appeared in the mulch in front of my building on the Lake Forest College campus. I harvested them with the conscious and premeditated intent of grossing out my botany students. (Inducing a bit of disgust now and then can be a powerful teaching tool, especially in biology.) By the time the deliquescence had started, it was impossible to convince anyone that Shaggy Ink Caps are actually sought-after edible mushrooms. But they are.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Botanical Rants & Rambles album.
This is a close-up of the Yellow Salsify (Tragopogon dubius) plant shown in the Part 20 photo. See that post for a whole-plant image and a politically incorrect rant in defense of this and other noninvasive weeds.
There's simply no other Aster Family member with an inflorescence as spectacularly stellar in aspect as this species'.
I say "inflorescence" rather than "flower" because what you're looking at here is in fact not one blossom but a tightly packed assemblage of many florets—miniaturized flowers deployed in a single, composite head (or capitulum, if you want to sound all sciency).. For pollinating insects and birds, this structure is a one-stop shopping emporium that offers the visitor a lot of pollen and, later, achenes (one-seeded fruit).
In Part 8 I described the anatomy of the asteraceous inflorescence, and noted that it most usually includes two varieties of florets, the disc and strap-shaped ray types. But T. dubius has dispensed with the former. If you look closely at the head shown here, you'll see that it's composed entirely of rays whose petallike appendages get longer toward the periphery.
Another feature that makes Yellow Salsify in bloom such a wonderful natural starburst pattern is its array of very long, green phyllaries. Also known as involucral bracts, these leaflike components of the capitulum are in other taxa tucked in unobtrusively under the rays. But here they insist on being the most eye-catching part of the show.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Botany of Illinois Beach State Park album.
My Dad , Rev. Dr. Linn Creighton
Cousin Dr. Harriet Creighton ( Former Professor of Botany at Wellesley College}
My mom Rev. Lois Creighton
American Botanist 1909-
Harriet Baldwin Creighton is a geneticist who helped prove that genes are located on chromosomes. She was born in Delevan, Illinois, on June 27, 1909. She attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. That year she matriculated at Cornell University as a botany graduate student and a laboratory assistant in botany. At that time Barbara McClintock, who later became a top American plant geneticist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine in 1983, was an instructor at Cornell. The two women immediately became friends and began working together on an important genetic problem: since the beginning of the twentieth century, cytologists theorized that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic information to produce new combinations of physical traits, but cytological evidence to prove their hypothesis was lacking.
McClintock had bred a special strain of corn (Zea mays) with a ninth chromosome that produced a waxy, purple kernel. In the spring of 1930, Creighton and McClintock planted the kernels from this strain. That summer they fertilized the silks with pollen from a plant of the same strain that did not have either waxy or purple kernels. Once the ears were harvested in the fall, Creighton and McClintock found that some of the kernels were waxy and purple and others had inherited one trait or the other—either waxy or purple—but not both, indicating that the two genes had become separated.
When Creighton and McClintock examined the chromosomes of the new kernels under a microscope they saw that the chromosomes had crossed-over, or exchanged segments. They thus proved that genes for physical traits are carried on chromosomes. This process is extremely complex, and cytologistshad been working to understand it for more than thirty years. Creighton and McClintock were the first to provide cytological evidence in plants that proved corresponding segments of genetic material on the chromatids of homologous chromosomes are able to cross over during meiosis. They published their remarkable findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical Crossing-over in Zea mays."
Creighton completed her Ph.D. in botany at Cornell in 1933. She went on to teach at Connecticut College as assistant professor of botany in 1934 where she remained for the next six years. In 1940 she accepted a position as an associate professor of botany at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Creighton's professional career is graced with many distinguished honors. She was twice a Fulbright Lecturer, once in genetics and plant physiology at the University of Western Australia and the University of Adelaide in 1952 and 1953, and again in genetics at the University of San Antonio Abad, Peru in 1959 and 1960. Creighton was the first female secretary of the Botanical Society of America (1950-54); she also served as vice president in 1955 and president in 1956. In addition Creighton was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where she served as vice president of the Botanical Sciences Section in 1964. Throughout her professional career, she continued to work in the field of plant genetics; much of her research focused on problems of heredity in corn, but her later research sought to investigate the "mad begonia," Begonia phyllomania, with its strange growth patterns, which Creighton believed might hold important clues for cancer researchers. She retired from Wellesley College in 1974.
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