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The shells of these quite common cowries reach on average 25–32 millimetres (0.98–1.26 in) of length, with a minimum size of 8 millimetres (0.31 in) and a maximum size of 44 millimetres (1.7 in). They are very variable in pattern and colour. The shape may be cylindrical or sub-cylindrical. The dorsum surface is smooth and shiny, the basic color is whitish, greenish or pale brown, with irregular dark brown patches, sometimes forming two-three transversal bands. The surface may also be completely grey-greenish. The margins are white or pale brown, with some dark dots and a pronounced labial 'callus'. The base is white or pinkish with fine short teeth. In the living cowries mantle is orange-reddish, with white sensorial papillae. Mantle and foot are well developed, with external antennae.
This species and the subspecies occur widely in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and South Africa (Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania) and in Western and Eastern Pacific Ocean along Western Australia, Philippines and Hawaii.
These cowries live on rocks or under corals in the intertidal zone. Nuweiba, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt.
[CAT]: El matí es presentava amb diverses circulacions interessants, amb el cisternes d'Escombreras a Cerbere, el trasllat del herbicida per la línia Manresa-Calaf i inesperadament el saler de FGC, que últimament està circulant intermitentment. Un cop fotografiat el primer, tenia l'opció d'intentar anar a fotografiar l'herbicida, però una ullada a l'estació de Manresa-Alta de FGC, em va fer canviar de plans, ja que tot apuntava a que el saler estava circulant. Un cop fixat l'objectiu, vaig decidir de fotografiar-lo a la sortida de Callús, però vaig pensar que seria millor apropar-me fins a Súria i verificar si realment les meves sospites anaven ben encaminades. Va ser arribar a Súria i girar cua cap a Callús, ja que el saler estava sortint, un cop arribat a Callús no va tardar gaire en aparèixer el saler amb la 254.01.
[ES]: La mañana se presentaba con diversas circulaciones interesantes, con el cisternas de Escombreras a Cerbere, el traslado del herbicida por la línea Manresa-Calaf y inesperadamente el salero de FGC, que últimamente va como puede. Una vez fotografiado el primero, tenía la opción de intentar ir a fotografiar el herbicida, pero un vistazo a le estación de Manresa-Alta de FGC, me hizo cambiar de planes, ya que todo apuntaba a que el salero estaba circulando. Una vez fijado el objetivo, decidí de fotografiarlo a la salida de Callús, pero pensé que sería buena idea acercarme hasta Súria y verificar si realmente mis sospechas iban bien encaminadas. Fué llegar a Súria y tener que salir pitando hacia Callús, ya que el salero estaba saliendo, una vez llegado a Callús no tardó mucho en aparecer el salero con la 254.01.
I’ve never been a fussy eater (apart from porridge, semolina, tapioca and rice pudding, that make me gag) but over the years I’ve come to quite dislike a “Chinese”.
Not that that worried me too much when I took a business trip to Shanghai some years ago. But it helped me form a view that just as the Chinese do so much the opposite to us, so it is that the Communist machine brain washed the peasant population that the delicacies are the chicken feet and wings, whilst reserving the juicy chicken breast, succulent thighs and tasty flesh for the ‘good’ senior Communist party members. I mean have you nibbled on the small callus-like pads on the base of a chicken foot? That’s the part ordinary Chinese will say is so delicious, but reminds me of chewing a fungus-riven old toe-nail.
I sat down for a meal at an authentic restaurant in Shanghai with our Chinese agent partners and whilst they translated the menu, largely let them decide on, and order the food. First course turned out to be some sort of delicately steamed catfish that they called ‘River Trout”. No, it didn’t have soft flavours like Scottish trout but instead reeked of thick and putrid mud. But it turned out to be the best par of the meal. Next up a football sized pot of bubbling soup was put in the centre of the table. I took my lead from the others and used my chop sticks to fish around for the “velly special vegetatables” they said were in it. I did eventually connect with something squishy solid and prised it up out of the pot, a wiggly strip of something, snookered between my two chopsticks. It didn’t look like any sort of “vegetatable” I had ever encountered elsewhere in the world but I was willing tyo give it the benefit of doubt and levered it across into my mouth. Hmmm. Not very legumative in my opinion, it was nothing more than an expensive strip of fat, that explained why it had wiggled as it hung from the chopstick. Well, it wouldn’t do me any harm if I cut down on a few calories so I continued to smile and chat as best I could. Fortunately a new dish was brought to us, another big bright red pot. I’m not sure how my host described it, but again we started fishing about in the pot’s murky depths with our chop sticks. I’m quite dextrous and soon had a big disc of something suspended from my chopsticks above the red liquid in the pot. I enquired in my best “I’m not really bothered what it is nonchalant style” WTF is that? At which my host paused his fishing and looked across at me, clearly searching for the correct English word. It didn’t come out easily, and with a stuttering Bl – bl-bl-bl-blur he eventually got it and blurted out “Bl-Bl-Blood!” Well, I’ve had black pudding at home, but somehow what I was seeing in front of me looked far less appetising. It meant that at the following meal I went vegetarian in a cafeteria type place where you chose plates of ready prepared food from out of clear plastic display cabinets. I’ll never forget the aspects of the meal that reminded me of an English garden: on one plate a blackbird lying on its side, dead, yellow beak and yellow legs, and on the next plate a miniature pyramid of Giza shape made out of fresh bright green hedge trimmings. Ya, see what I mean? Chinese food. It’s all about persuading the peasants that the rubbish parts are the best bits.
At the end of a barefoot day. My soles free of mud and dirt just the natural ingrained colour remains.
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Ficus carica is an Asian species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, known as the common fig. It is the source of the fruit also called the fig and as such is an important crop in those areas where it is grown commercially. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been sought out and cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world, both for its fruit and as an ornamental plant.[3][4] The species has become naturalized in scattered locations in Asia and North America.[5][6]
Etymology
The word fig, first recorded in English in the 13th century, derives from (Old) French figue, itself from Occitan (Provençal) figa, from Romance *fica, from Classical Latin ficus (fig or fig-tree).[7] Italian has fico, directly derived from Latin ficus. The name of the caprifig, Ficus caprificus Risso, is derived both from Latin capro (billygoat) and English fig.[8]
Biology
Description
Ficus carica is a gynodioecious, deciduous tree or large shrub that grows up to 7–10 metres (23–33 ft) tall, with smooth white bark. Its fragrant leaves are 12–25 centimetres (4.7–9.8 in) long and 10–18 centimetres (3.9–7.1 in) wide, and are deeply lobed (three or five lobes).
The fig fruit develops as a hollow, fleshy structure called the syconium that is lined internally with numerous unisexual flowers. The tiny flowers bloom inside this cup-like structure. Although commonly called a fruit, the syconium is botanically an infructescence, a type of multiple fruit. The small fig flowers and later small single-seeded (true) fruits line its interior surface. A small opening or ostiole, visible on the middle of the fruit, is a narrow passage that allows the specialized fig wasp, Blastophaga psenes to enter the inflorescence and pollinate the flowers, after which each fertilized ovule (one per flower, in its ovary) develops into a seed. At maturity, these 'seeds' (actually single-seeded fruits) line the inside of each fig. See Ficus: Fig fruit and reproduction system.
The edible mature syconium stem develops into a fleshy false fruit bearing the numerous one-seeded fruits, which are technically druplets.[9] The whole fig fruit is 3–5 centimetres (1.2–2.0 in) long, with a green skin that sometimes ripens toward purple or brown. Ficus carica has milky sap, produced by laticifer cells. The sap of the green parts is an irritant to human skin.[10]
Habitat
The common fig tree has been cultivated since ancient times and grows wild in dry and sunny locations with deep and fresh soil, and in rocky locations that are at sea level to 1,700 metres in elevation. It prefers relatively porous and freely draining soil, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Unlike other fig species, Ficus carica does not always require pollination by a wasp or from another tree,[11][12] because the fig wasp, Blastophaga psenes can pollinate it so as to produce seeds. Fig wasps are not present to pollinate in colder nations, e. g. the United Kingdom.[13]
The plant tolerates seasonal drought, and the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean climates are especially suitable to it. Situated in a favorable habitat, mature specimens can grow to considerable size as large, dense, shade trees. Its aggressive root system precludes its cultivation in many urban locations, yet in nature this characteristic helps the plant to root in the most inhospitable locations. Having a great need of water, it is mostly a phreatophyte that extracts the needed water from sources in or on the ground. Consequently, it frequently grows in locations with standing or running water, e. g. in valleys of rivers and in ravines that collect water. The deeply rooted plant searches for groundwater in aquifers, ravines, or cracks in rocks. With access to this water, the tree cools the hot environments in which it grows, thus producing fresh and pleasant habitat for many animals that shelter in its shade during periods of intense heat.
The mountain or rock fig ("Anjeer Kohi", انجیر کوهی, in Persian) is a wild variety, tolerant of cold dry climates, of the semi-arid rocky montane regions of Iran, especially in the Kohestan Mountains of Khorasan.[10]
Ecology
Ficus carica is dispersed by birds and mammals that scatter their seeds in droppings. Fig fruit is an important food source for much of the fauna in some areas, and the tree owes its expansion to those that feed on its fruit. The common fig tree also sprouts from the root and stolon tissues.
The infructescence is pollinated by a symbiosis with a fig wasp (Blastophaga psenes). The fertilized female wasp enters the fig through the scion, which has a tiny hole in the crown (the ostiole). She crawls on the inflorescence inside the fig and pollinates some of the female flowers. She lays her eggs inside some of the flowers and dies. After weeks of development in their galls, the male wasps emerge before the females wasps do through holes they produce by chewing the galls. The male wasps then fertilize the female wasps by depositing semen in the hole in the gall. The male wasps later return to the remaining female wasps and enlarge the holes to enable the female wasps to emerge. Then some males enlarge holes in the scion, which enables the female wasps to disperse after collecting pollen from the developed male flowers. Female wasps now have a short time (<48 hours) to find another fig tree with receptive scions to spread the pollen, assist the tree in reproduction, and lay their own eggs to start a new cycle.[13]
Cultivation
The edible fig is one of the first plants that were cultivated by humans. Nine subfossil figs of a parthenocarpic (and therefore sterile) type dating to about 9400–9200 BC were found in the early Neolithic village Gilgal I (in the Jordan Valley, 13 km north of Jericho). The find precedes the domestication of wheat, barley, and legumes, and may thus be the first known instance of agriculture. It is proposed that this sterile but desirable type was planted and cultivated intentionally, one thousand years before the next crops were domesticated (wheat and rye).[14]
Figs were widespread in ancient Greece, and their cultivation was described by both Aristotle and Theophrastus. Aristotle noted that as in animal sexes, figs have individuals of two kinds, one (the cultivated fig) that bears fruit, and one (the wild caprifig) that assists the other to bear fruit. Further, Aristotle recorded that the fruits of the wild fig contain psenes (fig wasps); these begin life as larvae, and the adult psen splits its "skin" (pupa) and flies out of the fig to find and enter a cultivated fig, saving it from dropping. Theophrastus observed that just as date palms have male and female flowers, and that farmers (from the East) help by scattering "dust" from the male onto the female, and as a male fish releases his milt over the female's eggs, so Greek farmers tie wild figs to cultivated trees. They do not say directly that figs reproduce sexually, however.[15]
Figs were also a common food source for the Romans. Cato the Elder, in his c. 160 BC De Agri Cultura, lists several strains of figs grown at the time he wrote his handbook: the Mariscan, African, Herculanean, Saguntine, and the black Tellanian (De agri cultura, ch. 8). The fruits were used, among other things, to fatten geese for the production of a precursor of foie gras. Rome's first emperor, Augustus, was reputed to have been poisoned with figs from his garden smeared with poison by his wife Livia.[16][17] For this reason, or perhaps because of her horticultural expertise, a variety of fig known as the Liviana was cultivated in Roman gardens.[18]
It was cultivated from Afghanistan to Portugal, also grown in Pithoragarh in the Kumaon hills of India. From the 15th century onwards, it was grown in areas including Northern Europe and the New World.[3] In the 16th century, Cardinal Reginald Pole introduced fig trees to Lambeth Palace in London.
In 1769, Spanish missionaries led by Junipero Serra brought the first figs to California. The Mission variety, which they cultivated, is still popular.[19] The fact that it is parthenocarpic (self-pollinating) made it an ideal cultivar for introduction.
The Kadota cultivar is even older, being mentioned by the Roman naturalist Pliny in the 1st century A.D.[20]
Overwintering
People of the Italian diaspora who live in cold-winter climates have the practice of burying imported fig trees to overwinter them and protect the fruiting hard wood from cold.[21] Italian immigrants in the 19th century introduced this common practice in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Toronto, where winters are normally too cold to leave the tree exposed.[22] This practice consists in digging a trench that is appropriate to the size of the specimen, some of which are more than 10 feet tall, severing part of the root system, and bending the specimen into the trench. Specimens are often wrapped in waterproof material to discourage development of mould and fungus, then covered with a heavy layer of soil and leaves. Sometimes plywood or corrugated metal is placed on top to secure the tree.[23] In borderline climates like New York City burying trees is no longer needed because low winter temperatures have increased. Often specimens are simply wrapped in plastic and other insulating material, or not protected if planted in a sheltered site against a wall that absorbs sunlight.[22]
Modern
Variegated fig
Fresh figs
The common fig is grown for its edible fruit throughout the temperate world. It is also grown as an ornamental tree, and in the UK the cultivars 'Brown Turkey'[24] and ‘Ice Crystal’ (mainly grown for its unusual foliage)[25] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[26]
Figs are also grown in Germany, mainly in private gardens inside built up areas. There is no commercial fig growing.[27] The Palatine region in the German South West has an estimated 80,000 fig trees. The variety Brown Turkey is the most widespread in the region.[28] There are about a dozen quite widespread varieties hardy enough to survive winter outdoors mostly without special protection. There are even two local varieties, "Martinsfeige" and "Lussheim", which may be the hardiest varieties in the region.[29]
As the population of California grew, especially after the gold rush, a number of other cultivars were brought there by persons and nurserymen from the east coast of the US and from France and England. By the end of the 19th century, it became apparent that California had the potential for being an ideal fig producing state because of its Mediterranean-like climate and latitude of 38 degrees, lining up San Francisco with Smyrna, Turkey. G. P. Rixford first brought true Smyrna figs to California in 1880. The most popular cultivar of Smyrna-type fig is Calimyrna, being a name that combines "California" and "Smyrna". The cultivar, however, is not one that was produced by a breeding program, and instead is from one of the cuttings brought to California in the latter part of the 19th century. It is identical to the cultivar Lob Injir that has been grown in Turkey for centuries.[20]
Figs can be found in continental climates with hot summers as far north as Hungary and Moravia. Thousands of cultivars, most named, have been developed as human migration brought the fig to many places outside its natural range. Fig plants can be propagated by seed or by vegetative methods. Vegetative propagation is quicker and more reliable, as it does not yield the inedible caprifigs. Seeds germinate readily in moist conditions and grow rapidly once established. For vegetative propagation, shoots with buds can be planted in well-watered soil in the spring or summer, or a branch can be scratched to expose the bast (inner bark) and pinned to the ground to allow roots to develop.[30]
Two crops of figs can be produced each year.[31] The first or breba crop develops in the spring on last year's shoot growth. The main fig crop develops on the current year's shoot growth and ripens in the late summer or fall. The main crop is generally superior in quantity and quality, but some cultivars such as 'Black Mission', 'Croisic', and 'Ventura' produce good breba crops.
There are three types of edible figs:[32]
Persistent (or common) figs have all female flowers that do not need pollination for fruiting; the fruit can develop through parthenocarpic means. This is a popular horticulture fig for home gardeners. Dottato (Kadota), Black Mission, Brown Turkey, Brunswick, and Celeste are some representative cultivars.
Caducous (or Smyrna) figs require cross pollination by the fig wasp with pollen from caprifigs for the fruit to mature. If not pollinated the immature fruits drop. Some cultivars are Marabout, Inchàrio, and Zidi.
Intermediate (or San Pedro) figs set an unpollinated breba crop but need pollination for the later main crop. Examples are Lampeira, King, and San Pedro.
There are dozens of fig cultivars, including main and breba cropping varieties, and an edible caprifig (the Croisic). Varieties are often local, found in a single region of one country.[31][33]
Breeding
While the fig contains more naturally occurring varieties than any other tree crop, a formal breeding program was not developed until the beginning of the 20th century.[34] Ira Condit, "High Priest of the Fig," and William Storey tested some thousands of fig seedlings in the early 20th century based at University of California, Riverside.[33] It was then continued at the University of California, Davis. However, the fig breeding program was ultimately closed in the 1980s.[34]
Due to insect and fungal disease pressure in both dried and fresh figs, the breeding program was revived in 1989 by James Doyle and Louise Ferguson using the germplasm established at UC Riverside by Ira Condit and William Storey. Crosses were made and two new varieties are now in production in California: the public variety "Sierra", and the patented variety "Sequoia".[35]
In 2018, world production of raw figs was 1.14 million tonnes, led by Turkey (with 27% of the world total), Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria as the largest producers collectively accounting for 64% of the total.[36]
Food
Figs can be eaten fresh or dried, and used in jam-making. Most commercial production is in dried or otherwise processed forms, since the ripe fruit does not transport well, and once picked does not keep well. The widely produced fig roll is a biscuit (cookie) with a filling made from figs.
In the Northern Hemisphere, fresh figs are in season from August through to early October. Fresh figs used in cooking should be plump and soft, and without bruising or splits. If they smell sour, the figs have become over-ripe. Slightly under-ripe figs can be kept at room temperature for 1–2 days to ripen before serving. Figs are most flavorful at room temperature.[37]
Nutrition
Raw figs are 79% water, 19% carbohydrates, 1% protein, and contain negligible fat (table). They are a moderate source (14% of the Daily Value, DV) of dietary fiber per 100-gram serving (74 calories), and do not supply essential micronutrients in significant contents (table).
When dehydrated to 30% water, figs have a carbohydrate content of 64%, protein content of 3%, and fat content of 1%.[38] In a 100-gram serving providing 249 calories, dried figs are a rich source (more than 20% DV) of dietary fiber and the essential mineral manganese (26% DV), while calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin K are in moderate amounts.[38]
Research and folk medicine
Phytochemicals
Figs contain diverse phytochemicals under basic research for their potential biological properties, including polyphenols, such as gallic acid, chlorogenic acid, syringic acid, (+)-catechin, (−)-epicatechin and rutin.[39][40] Fig color may vary between cultivars due to various concentrations of anthocyanins, with cyanidin-3-O-rutinoside having particularly high content.[41]
Folk medicine
In some old Mediterranean folk practices, the milky sap of the fig plant was used to soften calluses, remove warts, and deter parasites.[42]
Toxicity
Like other plant species in the family Moraceae, contact with the milky sap of Ficus carica followed by exposure to ultraviolet light can cause phytophotodermatitis,[43][44] a potentially serious skin inflammation. Although the plant is not poisonous per se, F. carica is listed in the FDA Database of Poisonous Plants.[45]
Organic chemical compounds called furanocoumarins are known to cause phytophotodermatitis in humans.[46] The common fig contains significant quantities of two furanocoumarins, psoralen and bergapten.[47] The essential oil of fig leaves contains more than 10% psoralen, the highest concentration of any organic compound isolated from fig leaves.[48] Psoralen appears to be the primary furanocoumarin compound responsible for fig leaf-induced phytophotodermatitis.
Psoralen and bergapten are found chiefly in the milky sap of the leaves and shoots of F. carica but not the fruits.[47] Neither psoralen nor bergapten were detected in the essential oil of fig fruits.[48] Thus there is no conclusive evidence that fig fruits cause phytophotodermatitis.
In religion and mythology
In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve clad themselves with fig leaves (Genesis 3:7) after eating the "forbidden fruit" from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Likewise, fig leaves, or depictions of fig leaves, have long been used to cover the genitals of nude figures in painting and sculpture, for example in Masaccio's The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Moreover, according to the Aggadah (Jewish text), the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden was not an apple, but a fig.
The Book of Deuteronomy specifies the fig as one of the Seven Species (Deuteronomy 8:7-8), describing the fertility of the land of Canaan. This is a set of seven plants indigenous to the Middle East that together can provide food all year round. The list is organized by date of harvest, with the fig being fourth due to its main crop ripening during summer.
Babylonian Ishtar for example took the form of the divine fig tree Xikum, the "primeval mother at the central place of the earth", protectress of the savior Tammuz. Moreover, fig and the fig tree were closely linked with female sexuality. In Barbara Walker's encyclopedia on Goddess symbols we learn that the fig leaf is the conventional form of the yoni. "This may account for the common use of the fig tree as a symbol of man's enlightenment, which was formerly supposed to come through his connection with the female principle."[49]
The biblical quote "each man under his own vine and fig tree" (Micah 4:4) has been used to denote peace and prosperity. It was commonly quoted to refer to the life that would be led by settlers in the American West,[50] and was used by Theodor Herzl in his depiction of the future Jewish Homeland: "We are a commonwealth. In form it is new, but in purpose very ancient. Our aim is mentioned in the First Book of Kings: 'Judah and Israel shall dwell securely, each man under his own vine and fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba".[51] United States President George Washington, writing in 1790 to the Touro Synagogue of Newport, Rhode Island, extended the metaphor to denote the equality of all Americans regardless of faith.[52]
Sura 95 of the Qur'an is named al-Tīn (Arabic for "The Fig"), as it opens with the oath "By the fig and the olive." The fruit is also mentioned elsewhere in the Qur'an. Within the Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari records Muhammad stating: "If I had to mention a fruit that descended from paradise, I would say this is it because the paradisiacal fruits do not have pits...eat from these fruits for they prevent hemorrhoids, prevent piles and help gout."[53]
Sabrina's wart at her left foot after one month without paring. The callus is hard as a stone, and Sabrina is unable to walk on the wart.
Jaflong, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2008.
Somehow, with the course of time,
..My heart has been eaten away.
Larvae of worms called reality have fed on my emotions.
Green and young, still it is.......
But my heart, now callused, feels no pain anymore.
From the jungle in Jaflong, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
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Susan complained that the yellowish area at her left ball is sensitive with pressure and hurts with walking. When I asked her to press the thick callus vertically and laterally it became clear that she indeed had another two warts (the large and small whitish area) and between them additionally two plantar corns. Two small greyish dots are seen, they are very hard and painful with direct pressure on them. The warts also hurt when they are pressed between two fingers. Susan tried it and stopped it at once because it was too painful.
When Susan told me that she is happy that these warts are not so noticeable as the others I suggested her again to let the callouses grow on them as she does already on these smaller warts. She promised me to leave the large ones untrimmed too and eventually send a pic from them.
A shot taken for the Macro Monday theme of "Once Upon a Time"
The task was to interpret a fairy tale from a list on Wikipedia, and I chose the tale of Fairy Gifts en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Gifts
I chose "Fairy Gifts". This is a French tale by Comte de Callus. This is about a Flower Fairy who raised princes and princesses in her house and never sent them away grown without a gift. The gift chosen for her latest princess is a kitten.
My subject is a small Tree decoration I bought a few weeks before last Christmas, and then forgot about. This was good news as it meant she had not been packed away in the loft.
Working in my friends workshop. Naturally developed pattern of forefoot callus as it cannot be found in the shoe-wearing population.
Emily's feet were in agony. Julie offered to massage Emily's feet and noticed that her feet were soft and yet to develop any calluses. Julie explained that the calluses had built up over time from wearing high heels regularly, and it helped to reduce the soreness.
Emily was surprised to hear this and decided to start wearing high heels more often to build up her own calluses. Julie laughed and said, "Be careful what you wish for. It's a love-hate relationship with high heels, but once you're used to them, you won't want to wear anything else." Emily nodded in agreement and decided to follow Jullie's advice.
Barefoot 24/7 in a big city - I love broken glass! A thick callus will protect me from any kind of "danger"
Had a pretty disappointing night at the lights last night. I was actually feeling kind of depressed about it when I hit my last stop of the night and there was nothing new or big there. After standing dejectedly for a few minutes, I turned around to start cleaning up and right in front of my eyes at the light was this delightful Maple Callus Borer (Synanthedon acerni), a clearwing moth. Woot!
This Odontoglomsum Orchid was taken while attending Orchid seminar,
There is nothing more beautiful and delicate that stays in bloom for so long, unfortunately only blooms once a year, well at least they have beautiful foliage:-)
The scientific name is derived from the Greek words odon (tooth) and glossa (tongue), referring to the two tooth-like calluses on the base of the lip.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
La 254.02 de FGC remolca el tren de potassa de buit entre el port de Barcelona i les mines de Súria a la sortida de Callús pel ramal de mercaderies des de Manresa. El tren és a punt de passar pel pont de Can Cavaller.
La 254.02 de FGC remolca el tren de potasa de vacío entre el puerto de Barcelona y las minas de Súria a la salida de Callús por el ramal de mercancías desde Manresa. El tren está a punt de pasar por el puente de Can Cavaller.
The 254.02 of FGC with the potash train from Barcelona harbour to Súria mines leaving Callús.
Feet of a young Swiss single mother. Her different sized feet cause many troubles when buying shoes. Most of her feet-problems are concentrated on her right foot. At both feet she has splay feet, overlapping second toes, calluses at the balls and heels and severe sweaty feet. At her right foot she suffers from a hallux valgus, a plantar corn and a very painful deep plantar wart. The pronounced calluses at the ball and heel at her right foot and the plantar corn are caused by weight-avoiding on her horribly painful wart.
Because Anja pared regularly the hard skin it never really looked like a wart. When I suggested to let the skin grow she gave in and left it untreated. The result after less than three weeks can be seen on the following photo.
my average day dirty feet during summer - street filth forms a nice protective layer, deeply staining the callus
Names carved in aspen trees is a common site in the forest of Colorado. You might even have your initials carved on aspen tree somewhere. I know I have carved my name before. However, this is a harmful practice on the trees. "Aspen are one of the most diseased and infected trees in North America. The bark is not like the bark of a pine tree or Douglas fir or any other conifer. These white trunks don’t have that protective, rough shield to protect the green layer of chlorophyll beneath, which is a delicious meal to many creatures, including a slew of beetles.
A tree can heal some minor cuts by compartmentalizing and forming a callus over time, but not unlike a crustacean shedding its exoskeleton, it’s left vulnerable to infestation during healing. Even if the tree heals, these carvings are permanent marks. Unlike other forms of human vandalism, they can not be removed or cleaned."
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Himalayan Ibex (Capra ibex sibirica) is symbol of arid and rocky mountain of Karakoram, Hindukush and Himalayas of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.The males have heavy body, large horns, long bears and females are small body small horns.
Himalayan ibex are found at about 3,660 m to over 5,000 m height in Pakistan, in summer but these can be seen at below 2,135 m during snow fall in winter.
Wild goats are animals of mountain habitats. They are very agile and hardy, able to climb on bare rock and survive on sparse vegetation. They can be distinguished from the genus Ovis, which includes sheep, by the presence of scent glands close to the feet, in the groin, and in front of the eyes, and the absence of other facial glands, and by the presence of a beard in the males, and of hairless calluses on the knees of the forelegs
Showing off those great big green feet and its yellow callus (forehead) is the American Coot on the shore of the Fox River in Waukesha. Coots are part of the rail family and sometimes known as "mud hens".