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The "ideal library". A small shopfront library with exquisite design and planning. Many, many innovative features. Co-located with a commercial bookshop and cinema.
Botany Bay, Broadstairs as seen from near Foreness Point. Sand dunes have formed at the bottom of the cliffs here.
From the 2013 cover of the journal Botany:
Cedars growing near Crawford Lake, Ontario, where sedimentary pollen and charcoal reveals human influences on vegetation over hundreds of years.
Image by Professor Scott Wilson (University of Regina).
©2013 NRC Research Press, a division of Canadian Science Publishing.
Cleavers (Galium aparine). I didn't recognise it at first having never seen it after flowering before.
OSU plant and fungal ecologist Posy Busby collecting leaf samples in a common garden of poplar trees. Busby is a researcher in OSU's Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
Family: Apocynaceae
Florida Distribution: nearly throughout
Ecosystem Type: wet flatwoods, floodplain forests
Rarity: frequent
Interesting Facts: excellent butterfly nectar plant
Sibley describes the bark of Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) as "small, rectangular blocks." How to tell it from other trees with chunky bark at The Mystery of the Black Gums!
A quick sunrise wander (after an airport drop-off)near Bare Island, La Perouse in Botany Bay National Park with my permanent, prime 17mm Shift lens :) Some post raw processing and Topaz HDR
Family: Acanthaceae
Florida Distribution: northern and central peninsula, west to central panhandle
Ecosystem Type: sandhills, flatwoods
Rarity: common
Plants use there bright colors to attract just the right species of insects for propagation. This incrdible bromide was in my garden store when I was shopping for dry scape plants. I could not resist pulling out my pocket camera and capturing the peakcock like display of amazing colour.
Approaching Sydney's major container terminal in Botany Bay, seen from the New South Wales Golf Club