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The never-ending battle between land and sea...how much longer will this old tree remain standing?

Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae) 157 24

 

Cypripedium calceolus (the lady's slipper orchid) is one of the best known and most widely illustrated of all flowering plants.

It is widely distributed, ranging from Spain, the British Isles and Scandinavia in western Europe across to north-eastern China, eastern Siberia and Sakhalin Island. It may also occur on Honshu in Japan. In Europe it is found from sea level in the north up to over 2000 m above sea level in the Alps. It favors limestone and is found in deciduous, mixed deciduous and coniferous woods, growing in light to deep shade.

The lady's slipper orchid is a long-lived herbaceous perennial which produces new growths from a rhizome (swollen underground stem) each season. It grows up to 60 cm tall, and the stems have a covering of glandular hairs. Each stem has three to four leaves, which are strongly pleated and often have up-curved sides. The inflorescence (flower stalk) is one- to two-flowered with leaf-like bracts. The flowers are showy. The sepals and petals are maroon (rarely green) and often spirally twisted. Cypripedium calceolus is quite variable in the wild. Plants may bear up to three flowers on a spike. Flowers can have green or yellow, rather than maroon, sepals and petals and a white, rather than a yellow, lip.

this was taken in the Botany Garden in Halle/Saale through a window into the glass-house

Romaldkirk , County Durham , UK .

Containers at Port Botany

Capture from this summer. Half an hour to late for the full tide and the sun disappearing in the horizon, but still decent light. Handheld!

LNER 91119 'Bounds Green' passes Botany Bay in its Intercity Swallow livery whilst working 1D21, the 1603 London Kings Cross to Leeds service. 05/04/2024.

 

Taken with the use of a pole.

From a recent trip Caroline and myself took to Botany Bay..

pileus approx. 1 cm diameter

I came across this photo in the archives while working on a project and wanted to post it. I really like the lighting in this scene even though it was midday. These old trees are so majestic to me and I am looking forward to returning here sometime in the future during some more ideal conditions.

 

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Macro image of red and green color succulent smoothed and softened in post production for a delicate, glowing effect. I shot this with my trusty and time-tested Tokina macro lens. Natural back-lighting and the thinness of the succulent leaves made a nice glow. I cropped the original image down to achieve a hilly or mountainous macro fantasy landscape.

 

This image was one of my favorites because of it's lighting and contrasting colors, and also because it has good depth of field keeping all the elements in focus.

 

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Romaldkirk , County Durham , UK .

A honey bee navigates the spiky thistle flower to get at its center to retrieve specks of pollen.

Tunnel of Trees leading to Botany Bay Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

Canopy of Oaks at Botany Bay on Edisto Island, SC

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Romaldkirk . County Durham , UK .

Minolta SR-T 101b

Kodak Color Plus 200

June 2022

On the shores of Loch Ard

The view of Botany Bay from LaPerouse on the weekend.

 

Botany Bay is on the South of Sydney and is the main industrial port of the region, some of which is hinted at behind the jagged rocky outcrop.

 

The Sydney Airport is also locate on the bay, with runways which extend out into the water.

 

A blend of several long exposures for the water and clouds with a shorter exposure for the rocks.

Nothoscordum bivalve (L.) Britt.

False onion, False garlic, Crow Poison

 

This early spring flower is one of the first to appear on lawns meadows or roadsides. The white flowers have 6 tepals with a green to brown stripe and 6 stamens and a honey-like perfume released on warm and sunny days. Nothoscordum bivalve is related to Allium. The leaves are strap-like (not hollow as in Allium), and the sap does not have an onion or garlic-like scent. The flowers are pretty and deliciously fragrant, but open only in direct sunshine. It is well-behaved in the garden and not weedy.

Kingdom Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division Magnoliophyta – Angiosperms - Flowering plants

Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons

Subclass Liliidae - Lily

Order Liliales - Lily

Family Liliaceae – Lily family

Genus Nothoscordum Kunth – false garlic

Species Nothoscordum bivalve (L.) Britton – crowpoison

Considered rare or threatened in two Midwest states in 2005

Never seen one of these big cockroaches before!

Polyzosteria limbata

The Duchess was going well through Botany Bay with the 1Z42 Kings Cross-York 'Christmas White Rose', 15.12.18.

Chelidonium majus (Papaveraceae) 102 20

 

Chelidonium majus (commonly known as greater celandine, nipplewort, swallowwort, or tetterwort, which also refers to Sanguinaria canadensis) is a herbaceous perennial plant, one of two species in the genus Chelidonium.

It is native to Europe and western Asia and introduced widely in North America.

Chelidonium majus reaches 30 to 120 cm high. When injured, the plant exudes a yellow to orange latex.

The flowers consist of four (rarely five) yellow petals with two sepals. The flowers appear from late spring to summer in umbelliform cymes of about 4 flowers.

It is considered an aggressive invasive plant in natural areas

The whole plant is toxic in moderate doses as it contains a range of isoquinoline alkaloids but there are numerous therapeutic uses when used at the correct dosage.

 

From Wikipedia.

Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km 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 to the east before meeting its mouth, the Tasman Sea, midpoint between La Perouse and Kurnell.

Botany Bay, Brighton Le Sands

best view mag glass+ or lg sizes, for detail / impact.

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