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The Royal Society of Natural Philosophy is pleased to announce the opening of a Botany House in Mooreton Bay, Alicentia. To advance the study of the flora of the New World, The Society has managed to engage the services of renowned Corlander Botanist, Sir Jonah Banks. Banks has set up his quarters in Botany House, a building in Mooreton bay built specially by the society for the study of Botany. Located roughly in the centre of the settlement, the land adjacent to the building has been set aside for future Botanic Gardens - a planned green oasis in the middle of a bustling town!
A freebuild for Brethren of the Brick Seas on Eurobricks.
Cap'n Jack Sparrow: We be sailing to Botany Bay
Me: Can't we go in the car it's only next to Margate!
I've lived in Kent all my life a yet strangely this weekend was the first I'd ever heard of Botany Bay and the first time I've visited Deal Pier. I wonder what other gems Kent has waiting for me.
Botany Bay, South Carolina.
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(Updated on November 17, 2024)
Facing westward. The large tree that dominates the scene is a magnificent specimen of Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana).
As one would expect given its locale, the branches of this lovely monster are festooned with Spanish Moss, otherwise known as Tillandsia usneoides. Actually not a moss at all, this clump-forming freeloader is in fact an epiphytic (tree-dwelling) bromeliad, a highly adapted flowering plant in the same family as the pineapple. To get a closer look at this amazing epiphyte, see Part 28 of this set.
In the previous, Part 30 description, I mentioned that another giant on the Pinckney site, a Southern Magnolia, was a member of the ancient magnoliid lineage of flowering plants. Here, however, we have representatives of the other two great angiosperm groups: the Southern Live Oak is a eudicot, and the Spanish Moss is a monocot.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Botany of the Carolinas Coastal Plain album.
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A few weeks ago I was trawling through Google maps looking to see what Kent's northern coastline had to offer, and came across these fantastic chalk stacks. Today I headed down towards Margate aiming for high tide and was very lucky with the weather. When I finally arrived after negotiating rush hour m25, walking down to the beach was totally worth the stressful drive. I can imagine this beach is incredibly popular on a sunny summers day, but today with the foreboding clouds it was just myself and the occasional dog walker.
Canon 550D
Tamron 17-50
Lee 0.6 Hard Grad
Lee Big Stopper
📟 : 313 to Chingford Station
🚍 : LT185 - LTZ1185
LT185 passes through Botany Bay (and avoids a little branch) as it heads from Potters Bar to Chingford Station operating route 313.
A beautiful early morning in Botany Bay Plantation WMA, Edisto Island, Charleston, SC.
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I did not go far on this day! I just went to the lawns of our condos!
It was the Shaggy Mane/Inky Cap that caught my eye initially. I found just a few other fungi growing along the paths.
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This is another older shot taken in November of 2013. I had been wanting to visit the Botany Bay area for a while and made a point to stop by on my way home from a friends wedding in Hilton Head SC. Unfortunately my travel plans brought me here during mid day when lighting was not ideal, but I just made the best of the light I had and looked at it more as a scouting trip than anything. My wife and I really enjoyed ourselves and this really is a beautiful area to explore. I am definitely going to make a point to get back here again sometime this year.
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Another one from Botany Bay, but at a faster shutter speed with no ND filters this time. Just to show the difference, I will post a long exposure from the same position tomorrow.
Looks best in Light box on black.
Our Daily Challenge ... science
Botany is the scientific study of plants ... and this includes algae, fungi, lichens and mosses.
A mushroom is fungi in the shape of an umbrella with a cup-shaped or flat cap on top of a stalk. They are actually the fruiting bodies, or flowers, that are produced by fungi. Spores are produced by a group of cells, called basidia, found on the underside of the mushroom cap. The body of the fungus is underground. While mushrooms come in all shapes, sizes and colors, the general structure remains the same.
The terms “mushroom” and “toadstool” are purely unscientific labels applied to different varieties of fungus. There’s no real scientific difference, however the name “toadstool” is commonly used to describe fungi that are inedible or poisonous, while “mushroom” is generally reserved for those that are safe to eat.
Sunrise at Botany Bay Boneyard on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The intense colors of that morning created a dreamy unreal scene.
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