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Family: Lentibulariaceae
Florida Distribution: peninsula west to central panhandle
Ecosystem Type: flatwoods, bogs
Rarity: frequent
Interesting Facts: carnivorous
Photo credit: Walter Hodge
inspired by books by india flint- Eco Dyeing and Second Skin-
this is silk dupioni dyed with eucalyptus leaves! still wet but so beautiful!
Family: Fagaceae
Florida Distribution: nearly throughout
Ecosystem Type: sandhills
Rarity: frequent
Photo credit: Shirley Denton
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/
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.
The flower clusters grow directly off the trunk of the cacao tree, called "cauliflory". If fertilized, the plant will create large fruit containing 20 to 60 pods.
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.
Battle of Camden site, Kershaw County SC: left-to right: Bert Pittman, Kathy Boyle, Pat Ferral, John Nelson
The chalk stacks at Botany Bay, Broadstairs in Kent. This was taken soon after sunrise after 07.00 hours. Apart from a few dogwalkers I had the beach to myself.
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Transverse section of a Equistetum sp. strobilus (spore producing structure) showing two sporangiophores. The single sporangium at the right contains less developed spores . Note that the sporangium is still filled with the tapetum. The tapetum dissolves as the spores develop with the result shown at left. The strobilus as found is shown at: www.flickr.com/photos/14643312@N02/18511410355/. The specimen is from the edge of the Dowagiac River.
The protocol was as follows. Specimens fixed in FAA (formaldehyde, acetic acid, ethanol) 24 hr. Dehydrated in 35, 50, 75, 85, 95, 99 % IPA in water, 6 hours each min. Infiltrated in xylene saturated with Paraplast for 2 days, followed by 2 changes of melted Paraplast for 2 hours each. Embedded in Paraplast. Sectioned on a Spencer 820 microtome at 11 micron. Cleared in Xylene 2X, 10 min each. Rehydrated 99 (10 min), 90 (10 min.), 85, 70 % IPA, 2 min. each. Stained in Johansen's Safranin-O Fast Green. Cleared 2X xyene 5 min each. Mounted with DEPEX.
Photographed on a Spencer 42 petrographic polarizing microscope using an original magnification of 30X, using a Sony NEX 5N with a Leica MIKAS 1/3X adapter.
The "ideal library". A small shopfront library with exquisite design and planning. Many, many innovative features. Co-located with a commercial bookshop and cinema.
Trip to the Natural History Museum in London. 30th of July 2016. Great day out :-) Got some good and some not so good photos
Josephi Pitton Tournefort ... Institutiones rei herbariæ..
Parisiis :E Typographia Regia,1700-[1703].
1435 and 4498 power up to lift their train out of Botany Yard for the short trip up the line to Cooks River. Normally two to three Independant Railways of Australia (IRA) trains run from Botany to Cooks River and back again each day.
Before the seed can be transported to the restoration site, it must be dried and bagged. Here, the seed is spread out on large sheets of plastic to allow the seeds to dry prior to bagging for transport. If the seeds are bagged when they are still wet, they will rot in the bag during transport. The drying process usually takes about three days, but may take slightly longer depending on how wet the seed was when it was collected.