Animal Taxonomy - Hymenoptera
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Gladiolus dalenii is one of the most widely distributed species of gladiolus (in the family Iridaceae), ranging from eastern South Africa and Madagascar throughout tropical Africa and into western Arabia. It is the main parental species of the large flowering grandiflora hybrids. This species is also unusual in its genus in including diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid races. The hybrids produced from it are often tetraploids. It produces five tall flower spikes of yellow to scarlet flowers, often streaked red over a yellow ground color, generally with a yellow throat. 29158
Osmia bicornis, synonym Osmia rufa, is a species of mason bee, and is known as the red mason bee due to its covering of dense gingery hair. It is a solitary bee that nests in holes or stems and is polylectic, meaning it forages pollen from various different flowering plants. These bees can be seen aggregating together and nests in preexisting hollows, choosing not to excavate their own. These bees are not aggressive; they will only sting if handled very roughly and are safe to be closely observed by children. Females only mate once, usually with closely related males. Further, females can determine the sex ratio of their offspring based on their body size, where larger females will invest more in diploid females eggs than small bees. These bees also have trichromatic colour vision and are important pollinators in agriculture.
(Oryx beisa beisa) B28I7799 Buffalo Springs - Central Kenya
The East African Oryx (Oryx beisa), also known as the beisa is a species of antelope from East Africa. It has two subspecies: the common Beisa Oryx (Oryx beisa beisa) found in steppe and semidesert throughout the Horn of Africa and north of the Tana River, and the Fringe-eared Oryx (Oryx beisa callotis) south of the Tana River in southern Kenya and parts of Tanzania. In the past, some taxonomists considered it a subspecies of the Gemsbok (Oryx gazella), but they are genetically distinct; the diploid chromosome count is 56 for the Beisa and 58 for the Gemsbok. The species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
Osmia bicornis, synonym Osmia rufa, is a species of mason bee, and is known as the red mason bee due to its covering of dense gingery hair. It is a solitary bee that nests in holes or stems and is polylectic, meaning it forages pollen from various different flowering plants. These bees can be seen aggregating together and nests in preexisting hollows, choosing not to excavate their own. These bees are not aggressive; they will only sting if handled very roughly and are safe to be closely observed by children. Females only mate once, usually with closely related males. Further, females can determine the sex ratio of their offspring based on their body size, where larger females will invest more in diploid females eggs than small bees. These bees also have trichromatic colour vision and are important pollinators in agriculture.
Osmia bicornis, synonym Osmia rufa, is a species of mason bee, and is known as the red mason bee due to its covering of dense gingery hair. It is a solitary bee that nests in holes or stems and is polylectic, meaning it forages pollen from various different flowering plants. These bees can be seen aggregating together and nests in preexisting hollows, choosing not to excavate their own. These bees are not aggressive; they will only sting if handled very roughly and are safe to be closely observed by children. Females only mate once, usually with closely related males. Further, females can determine the sex ratio of their offspring based on their body size, where larger females will invest more in diploid females eggs than small bees. These bees also have trichromatic colour vision and are important pollinators in agriculture.
OK so I did have some help in making this piece of paper, actually a lot of help because this came from a basketball sized White-Faced Hornet nest. They use the paper to construct beautiful and artistic nests. Then, at the end of the season, the bees all die and the nests deteriorate. I found this one and It’s been sitting in my garage for a few years waiting on an idea for it's eventual re-use. The hornets (actually wasps) and their nests have always interested me and I don't pass up an opportunity to get some pics of them, see first comment or just search "Wasp" in my photostream. When "Paper Art" came up as a theme for the Macro Monday group, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. It really checked all the boxes and I'll bee curious to see if there are other examples in the pool!
The size limitation was a bit tricky but I managed to find an interesting piece, part of a cooling vent/air circulation system. I trimmed it down to adhere to the 3 inch rule. It measures 3in. x 2 in.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 15 Image Photo Stack shot at f/8
For Macro Mondays group, Theme: Paper Art. I think I have a nice place on my plate for this piece of paper. :)
For inquiring minds:
Dolichovespula maculata is a species of yellowjacket and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae. It is known by many colloquial names, primarily bald-faced hornet, but also including bald-faced aerial yellowjacket, bald-faced wasp, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, blackjacket, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, and bull wasp. As a species of yellowjacket wasp, it is not a true hornet, which are in the genus Vespa. Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus, Dolichovespula. It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to 58 centimetres (23 in) in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders.
The bald-faced hornet is distributed throughout the United States and southern Canada, but is most common in the southeastern United States. Males in this species are haploid and females are diploid. Worker females can therefore lay eggs which develop into males.
Most living species including humans, are diploid, with two sets of chromosomes. Most Dahlias are octoploids with eight sets of chromosomes which results in far variable offspring.
So because I used seeds for some of the Dahlias I will end up with pot luck. I have the chance of getting a really fantastic Dahlia or something like the one here.
I also have a yellow Dahlia that is as big as my thumb nail.
Its interesting but I am not going to keep them if they are too weird and too taller plant.
Have a great new week
entstanden aus einem Körnchen Vogelfutter aus dem Vogelhaus darüber
created from a grain of birdseed from the birdhouse above
Weichweizen, auch als Brotweizen oder Saat-Weizen bezeichnet, ist eine Pflanzenart innerhalb der Familie der Süßgräser. Die hexaploide Getreideart Weichweizen ist eine der ältesten Kulturpflanzen und entstand vor rund 9000 Jahren als sogenannter Additionsbastard, das heißt als allohexaploide Art aus tetraploidem Emmer und diploidem Ziegengras.
Wikipedia
Common wheat, also known as bread wheat or seed wheat, is a plant species within the sweet grass family. The hexaploid cereal species common wheat is one of the oldest cultivated plants and originated around 9000 years ago as a so-called addition bastard, i.e. as an allohexaploid species from tetraploid emmer and diploid goat grass.
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The gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor) is a species of small arboreal holarctic tree frog native to much of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.
It is sometimes referred to as the eastern gray treefrog, northern gray treefrog, common gray treefrog, or tetraploid gray treefrog to distinguish it from its more southern, genetically disparate relative, Cope's gray treefrog.
As the scientific name implies, gray treefrogs are variable in color. This ability to vary their color provides them with the ability to camouflage themselves from gray to green or brown, depending on the environment around them. H. versicolor can change from nearly black to nearly white. They change color at a slower rate than a chameleon. A unique aspect of the appearance of gray treefrogs is that its legs feature a dark band-like pattern which then contrast sharply with the black-marked bright yellow or orange under the sides of its legs and arms. Dead gray treefrogs and ones in unnatural surroundings are predominantly gray. The female does not call however, the male does call. Female gray treefrogs are usually larger than their male counterparts. They are relatively small compared to other North American frog species, typically attaining no more than 1.5 to 2 in (3.8 to 5.1 cm) in length. Their skin has a lumpy texture to it, giving them a warty appearance.
This species is virtually indistinguishable from Cope's gray treefrog, the only readily noticeable difference being that Cope's Gray treefrog has a shorter, faster call. This varies depending on the temperature, however, as the call rates of both gray treefrogs are temperature dependent. At lower temperatures, Cope's gray treefrog can have a call rate approximating that of the gray treefrog. This difference in calling can be heard, but it is best quantified by counting the number of pulses per second in their whistled trills. At usual temperatures, the gray treefrog has a pulse rate of 16 to 34 pulses per second, while Cope's gray treefrog has a pulse rate of 34 to 60 pulses per second. Even though there is potential for overlap, because of the temperature dependence of the pulse frequency the two species are easily distinguished where they occur together. At a given temperature, the pulse frequency for the gray treefrog is approximately 1/2 that of Cope's gray treefrog.
The gray treefrog also has 48 chromosomes (4n), and is sometimes referred to as the tetraploid gray treefrog in scientific literature. Cope's gray treefrog, or diploid gray treefrog, retained its 2n (24) original chromosome count. Hybridization between these species results in early mortality of many larvae, but some individuals survive to adulthood, but these individuals suffer from reduced fertility.
Both of these similar species have bright-yellow patches on their hind legs, which distinguishes them from other treefrogs, such as the bird-voiced tree frog. The bright patches are normally only visible while the frog is jumping. Both species of gray treefrogs are slightly sexually dimorphic. Males have black or gray throats, while the throats of the females are lighter.
Tadpoles have rounded bodies (as opposed to the more elongated bodies of stream species) with high, wide tails that can be colored red if predators are in the system. Metamorphosis can occur as quickly as two months with optimal conditions. During metamorphosis, the new froglets will almost always turn green for a day or two before changing to the more common gray. Young frogs will also sometimes maintain a light green color, only turning gray or darker green once adulthood is reached.
Prunus avium
Captura: Llanars, Vall de Camprodon, Ripollès, Catalunya.
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Cirerer
El cirerer o cirer (Prunus avium) és un arbre originari d'Europa, Àsia occidental i nord d'Àfrica, que pertany al gènere Prunus, de la família Rosaceae. Els cirerers cultivats per produir cireres provenen de selecció de les espècies Prunus avium i Prunus cerasus, i creuaments entre elles.
El tronc és dret i la capçada força estreta, sobretot en medi forestal. Les branques estan agrupades en corones anuals. Arriba a 20-25 metres d'alçada i diàmetre de 0,60 m. A la joventut, l'escorça és de color gris rogenc lluent, llisa amb abundants lenticel·les blanquinoses. Més tard es formen bandes horitzontals, i després plaques, que s'esquerden. No obstant, pot ser que l'escorça es mantingui llisa durant molt de temps.
Les fulles són ovato-oblongues, serrades, amb una o dues glàndules vermelles a l'extrem del pecíol. A la tardor prenen un color vermell, això no obstant, en condicions desfavorables això passa durant l'estiu.
Les flors són blanques, amb cinc pètals, hermafrodites, agrupades en corimbes, de fecundació creuada per insectes (abelles). La floració es produeix al mes d'abril/maig, abans de l'aparició de les fulles. Els fruits, les cireres, es desenvolupen passats dos mesos, i són de tipus drupa.
L'arrelament depèn de les característiques del sòl. En terrenys profunds forma un sistema potent, contràriament al que passa en terrenys somers, amb evident perill d'arrabassament per ventades.
ENGLISH
Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry or gean is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is native to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb, and Western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small isolated population in the western Himalaya. The species is widely cultivated in other regions and has become naturalized in North America, New Zealand and Australia.
Prunus avium has a diploid set of sixteen chromosomes (2n = 16).[9] All parts of the plant except for the ripe fruit are slightly toxic, containing cyanogenic glycosides.
WIKIPEDIA
Esto es lo mas curioso que ha encontrado hoy Petete *_*
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La vida de una hormiga comienza a partir de un huevo. Si éste es fertilizado, nacerá una hembra (diploide); si no, será un macho (haploide). Este tipo de reproducción, característico de los himenópteros, se llama haplodiploidía.
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Fuente: “El libro Gordo de Petete”
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Gracias por la visita :-) Un saludo amig@s *_*
Musa velutina, the hairy banana or pink banana, is a diploid species of wild banana. These plants are originally from Assam and the eastern Himalayas.
Introduced in Brazil as an ornamental plant and used in sophisticated landscaping projects.
"Sertão da Barra do Una", São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil.
The common dandelion, like the whole genus (Taraxacum), is genetically really interesting. It is a native of Europe and parts of Asia. Today called Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia (formerly Taraxacum officinale), the common dandelion is not actually one species but a set of very closely related species that form mixed populations (diploid and multiploid individuals growing together), which easily hibradize and are, apparently, even able to produce one another. Additionally, there seem to be multiple ways of propagation involved. This seems to be explained (amongst other things) by the fact that the species is extremely old. Fossils from multiple glacial periods have been found.
Besides being genetically interest, the dandelion (specifically the common one, but also other species) has quite a few uses. It can serve as a food source, fresh or processed, has been used in medicine (which is indicated by the 'officinale' in the old name) and has even been made out to be an alternative source of natural rubber.
Like all land plants (embryophytes), bryophytes show 'alternation of generations'. A haploid gametophyte, each of whose cells contains a fixed number of unpaired chromosomes, gives rise to a diploid sporophyte, each of whose cells contains twice the number of paired chromosomes. Gametophytes produce sperm and eggs which fuse and grow into sporophytes. Sporophytes produce spores which grow into gametophytes.
Ich entdeckte diese filigranen Geschöpfe in einem Blumentopf mit Petersilie auf der Terrasse. Wikipedia: Als Sporophyt wird in der Botanik die diploide Generation (mit doppeltem Chromosomensatz) bei Organismen mit Generationswechsel bezeichnet. Sporophyten produzieren haploide Sporen (mit einfachem Chromosomensatz), aus denen die Gametophyten-Generation hervorgeht. Die Moose haben einen heteromorphen und heterophasischen Generationswechsel. Die grüne Moospflanze ist der Gametophyt, während der Sporophyt in der Regel nur aus der Kapsel (dem Sporogon) und ihrem Stiel (der Seta) besteht. Dieser wird vom Gametophyten ernährt.
White-Faced Hornets (actually wasps) and their nests have always interested me and I don't pass up an opportunity to get some pics of them, see first comment or just search "Wasp" in my photostream. When "Paper Art" came up as a theme for the Macro Monday group I knew exactly what to do. I got a nice section of the paper and it checked all the boxes except for it's size, this piece measured about 6 inches so it was too big for the group but I thought it looked cool all the same. I did manage to find an interesting piece, part of a cooling vent/air circulation system that I trimmed and shot for the group pool. So the question is with this piece, what do you see?
Meyer Optik Gorlitz Oreston 50mm f/1.8, 8 Image Photo Stack shot at f/8
For inquiring minds:
Dolichovespula maculata is a species of yellowjacket and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae. It is known by many colloquial names, primarily bald-faced hornet, but also including bald-faced aerial yellowjacket, bald-faced wasp, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, blackjacket, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, and bull wasp. As a species of yellowjacket wasp, it is not a true hornet, which are in the genus Vespa. Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus, Dolichovespula. It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to 58 centimetres (23 in) in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders.
The bald-faced hornet is distributed throughout the United States and southern Canada, but is most common in the southeastern United States. Males in this species are haploid and females are diploid. Worker females can therefore lay eggs which develop into males.
This Bald Faced Hornet was photographed on Backus Mountain in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia USA.
As a species of yellowjacket wasp, it is not a true hornet, which are in the genus Vespa. Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus, Dolichovespula.[1] It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to 58 centimeters (23 in) in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders.[2]
The bald-faced hornet is distributed throughout the United States and southern Canada, but is most common in the southeastern United States. Males in this species are haploid and females are diploid. Worker females can therefore lay eggs which develop into males. Source: Wikipedia
It came out of the camera dark. Rather than pitch it, I opened it in PS edit, and added a sandstone texture. The result was a pastel on fabric effect.
From my set ewntitled “Lilies”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daylilies comprise the small genus Hemerocallis of flowering plants in the family Hemerocallidaceae. They are not true lilies which are Lilium in Liliaceae.
These plants are perennial. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) "day" and καλός (kalos) "beautiful". The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the same stem the next day. Some species are night-blooming. Daylilies are not commonly used as cut flowers for formal flower arranging, yet they make good cut flowers otherwise as new flowers continue to open on cut stems over several days.
Originally native from Europe to China, Korea, and Japan, their large showy flowers have made them popular worldwide. There are over 60,000 registered cultivars. Only a few cultivars are scented. Some cultivars rebloom later in the season, particularly if their developing seedpods are removed.
Daylilies occur as a clump including leaves, the crown, and the roots. The long, often linear lanceolate leaves are grouped into opposite flat fans with leaves arching out to both sides. The crown of a daylily is the small white portion between the leaves and the roots, an essential part of the fan. Along the flower stem or scape, small leafy "proliferations" may form at nodes or in bracts. These proliferations form roots when planted and are the exact clones of the parent plant. Some daylilies show elongated widenings along the roots, made by the plant mostly for water storage and an indication of good health.
The flower consists of three petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, each with a midrib in the same or in a contrasting color. The centermost section of the flower, called the throat, has usually a different and contrasting color. There are six stamens, each with a two-lobed anther. After pollination, the flower forms a pod.
Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the cultivars have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow 'Hyperion', introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely available. Daylily breeding has been a specialty in the United States, where their heat- and drought-resistance made them garden standbys during the later 20th century. New cultivars have sold for thousands of dollars, but sturdy and prolific introductions soon reach reasonable prices.
'Kwanzo' - a triple-flowered triploid cultivar
Tawny Daylily Hemerocallis fulva, and sweet-scented H. lilioasphodelus (H. flava is an illegitimate name), colloquially called Lemon Lily, were early imports from England to 17th century American gardens and soon established themselves. Tawny Daylily is so widely growing wild that it is often considered a native wildflower. It is called Roadside or Railroad Daylily, and gained the nickname Wash-house or Outhouse Lily because it was frequently planted at such buildings.
Hemerocallis is one of the most hybridized of all garden plants, with registrations of new hybrids being made in the thousands each year in the search for new traits. Hybridizers have extended the plant's color range from the yellow, orange, and pale pink of the species, to vibrant reds, purples, lavenders, greenish tones, near-black, near-white, and more. However, a blue daylily is a milestone yet to be reached.
Other flower traits that hybridizers develop include height, scent, ruffled edges, contrasting "eyes" in the center of the bloom, and an illusion of glitter or "diamond dust." Sought-after improvements in foliage include color, variegation, disease resistance, the ability to form large, neat clumps and being evergreen or semi-evergreen instead of herbaceous (also known as "dormant" — the foliage dies back during the winter.)
A recent trend in hybridizing is to focus on tetraploid plants, with thicker petal substance and sturdier stems. Until this trend took root, nearly all daylilies were diploid. "Tets," as they are called by aficionados, have double the number of chromosomes as a diploid plant.[1] Only one cultivar is known to be triploid, the brilliant orange 'Kwanzo' or 'Kwanso,' which cannot set seed and is reproduced solely by underground runners (stolons) and division. Usually referred to as a "double," meaning producing flowers with double the usual number of petals (e.g., daylily 'Double Grapette'), 'Kwanzo' actually produces triple the usual number of petals.
The flowers of some species are edible and are used in Chinese cuisine. They are sold (fresh or dried) in Asian markets as gum jum or golden needles (金针 in Chinese; pinyin: jīnzhēn) or yellow flower vegetables (黃花菜 in Chinese; pinyin: huánghuācài). They are used in hot and sour soup, daylily soup (金針花湯), Buddha's delight, and moo shu pork. The young green leaves and the tubers of some (but not all[citation needed]) species are also edible. The plant has also been used for medicinal purposes. Care must be use as some species can be toxic.
ヘメロカリス ‘グリーン・フルッター’
Hemerocallis ‘Green Flutter’ (Williamson, 1964. USA)
scape heigh : 20 inches
bloom size : 3 inches
bloom season : Late, Rebloom
ploidy : Diploid
foliage type : Semi-Evergreen
bloom habit : Extended
seedling # : W-304-60
Color : canary self with green throat
Parentage : ?
Nikon D800E
SIGMA MACRO 70mm F2.8 EX DG for Nikon AF Mount
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Rhinoceros, often abbreviated to rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia. Members of the rhinoceros family are characterized by their large size (they are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all of the species able to reach one tonne or more in weight); as well as by an herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin, 1.5–5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400–600 g); and a large horn. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter, if necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls, the two African species of rhinoceros lack teeth at the front of their mouths, relying instead on their lips to pluck food. Rhinoceros are killed by humans for their horns, which are bought and sold on the black market, and which are used by some cultures for ornamental or traditional medicinal purposes. East Asia, specifically Vietnam, is the largest market for rhino horns. By weight, rhino horns cost as much as gold on the black market. People grind up the horns and then consume them believing the dust has therapeutic properties. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn. The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered. The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose") and κέρας (keras, "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd. The name has been in use since the 14th century. The family Rhinocerotidae consists of only four extant genera: Ceratotherium (White rhinoceros), Dicerorhinus (Sumatran rhinoceros), Diceros (Black rhinoceros) and Rhinoceros (Indian and Javan rhinoceros). The living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, belong to the tribe Dicerotini, which originated in the middle Miocene, about 14.2 million years ago. The species diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago). The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their mouths – white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage. There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the Indian rhinoceros and the Javan rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about 10 million years ago. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only surviving representative of the most primitive group, the Dicerorhinini, which emerged in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago). A subspecific hybrid white rhino (Ceratotherium s. simum × C. s. cottoni) was bred at the Dvůr Králové Zoo (Zoological Garden Dvur Kralove nad Labem) in the Czech Republic in 1977. Interspecific hybridisation of black and white rhinoceros has also been confirmed. While the black rhinoceros has 84 chromosomes (diploid number, 2N, per cell), all other rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes. However, chromosomal polymorphism might lead to varying chromosome counts. For instance, in a study there were three northern white rhinoceroses with 81 chromosomes. There are two subspecies of white rhinoceros: the southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) and the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). As of 2013, the southern subspecies has a wild population of 20,405 – making them the most abundant rhino subspecies in the world. However, the northern subspecies was critically endangered, with as few as four individuals in the wild; the possibility of complete extinction in the wild having been noted since June 2008. Five are known to be held in captivity, one of which resides at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Four born in a zoo in the Czech Republic were transferred to a wildlife refuge in Kenya in December 2009, in an effort to have the animals reproduce and save the subspecies. There is no conclusive explanation of the name white rhinoceros. A popular theory that "white" is a distortion of either the Afrikaans word wyd or the Dutch word wijd (or its other possible spellings whyde, weit, etc.,) meaning wide and referring to the rhino's square lips is not supported by linguistic studies. The white rhino has an immense body and large head, a short neck and broad chest. Females weigh 1,600 kg (4,000 lb) and males 2,400 kg (5,000 lb). the head-and-body length is 3.5–4.6 m (11–15 ft) and a shoulder height of 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft). On its snout it has two horns. The front horn is larger than the other horn and averages 90 cm (35 in) in length and can reach 150 cm (59 in). The white rhinoceros also has a prominent muscular hump that supports its relatively large head. The colour of this animal can range from yellowish brown to slate grey. Most of its body hair is found on the ear fringes and tail bristles, with the rest distributed rather sparsely over the rest of the body. White rhinos have the distinctive flat broad mouth that is used for grazing.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae) is a typical sawfly with dark green or blackish 18–25 mm long larvae that feed on plants of the brassica family, and can sometimes be a pest. It winters below the ground, emerging in early summer as a 7–8 mm adult with a mainly orange body and a black head. The adult feeds on nectar.
The turnip sawfly was found to result in diploid males and females after sister-brother matings. This differs from normal haplodiploid hymenoptera and after a further cross causing triploid males, resulted in evidence that sex determination is controlled by a single locus. The sawflies have been found to sequester glucosinolates like many insects in larval stages. Removal of various glucosinolates has been shown to reduce sensitivity to host plants in later adult stages. The fact that glucosinolates being removed causes reduced sensitivity to future possible host plants has been used to argue that these chemicals are important in specific larval patterning to future host plant options. Due to no current primitive Hymenoptera, the turnip sawfly is being worked on for genome sequencing. This effort will add to the planned i5K, the effort to sequence 5,000 insect genomes in 5 years.
I guess the title caught your attention, prepare yourself for profound disappointment.
There’s a bit going on here!
I believe the slime mold to be Arcyria denudata, (but please correct if I am wrong), discovered under the bark of a rotting birch tree. You may notice the small, segmented invertebrate on the right side, normally they feed on the fruiting bodies of slime molds but this appeared to be the other way around. I suspect it just got entangled and covered with spores.
The other bit of excitement is the small green heart-shaped structure in the foreground. This measures about 1.5mm in diameter and is a fern gametophyte. This has both male Antheridia and female Archegonia sex organs and a haploid number of chromosomes. When the released egg is fertilized by the sperm, the diploid number of chromosomes will be restored; a sporophyte will result and develop into a mature fern.
Ferns can have an amazing number of chromosomes, up to 1400 compared to our measly 46.
On a separate note, a funny thing happened on the way back from the dog walk. I was listening to Radcliffe and Maconie on 6 Music and if you’ve ever done the same, you’ll be familiar with the interstitial clip:
‘You know what you wanna do with that, right?
You wanna put a bangin’ donk on it’
I had a guess what a bangin’ donk was but I thought I’d ask Noelene (she’s Siri after gender reassignment).
'Hey Siri' (she’s still in denial of her Aussie heritage and refuses to answer to Noelene).
‘Whats a bangin’ donk?
She replied: ‘Andrew Christian Edward Mountbatten....’
I was rather taken aback, so I asked her again, maybe it was the Yorkshire accent but nope, she was adamant. (Noelene is also a face painted new Romantic)
Well, who am I to argue with the wisdom of Noelene? 😳
Here's the tune I was listening to:
youtu.be/Rf1usmb1Dd0?list=RDRf1usmb1Dd0
Ps. At least you won’t have to read any more of this s*** until next year!
In flower today. (Diploid hybrid of P. caerulea 'Constance Eliott' x P. eichleriana bred by Henk Wouters)
From my set ewntitled “Lilies”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607186495368/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daylilies comprise the small genus Hemerocallis of flowering plants in the family Hemerocallidaceae. They are not true lilies which are Lilium in Liliaceae.
These plants are perennial. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) "day" and καλός (kalos) "beautiful". The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the same stem the next day. Some species are night-blooming. Daylilies are not commonly used as cut flowers for formal flower arranging, yet they make good cut flowers otherwise as new flowers continue to open on cut stems over several days.
Originally native from Europe to China, Korea, and Japan, their large showy flowers have made them popular worldwide. There are over 60,000 registered cultivars. Only a few cultivars are scented. Some cultivars rebloom later in the season, particularly if their developing seedpods are removed.
Daylilies occur as a clump including leaves, the crown, and the roots. The long, often linear lanceolate leaves are grouped into opposite flat fans with leaves arching out to both sides. The crown of a daylily is the small white portion between the leaves and the roots, an essential part of the fan. Along the flower stem or scape, small leafy "proliferations" may form at nodes or in bracts. These proliferations form roots when planted and are the exact clones of the parent plant. Some daylilies show elongated widenings along the roots, made by the plant mostly for water storage and an indication of good health.
The flower consists of three petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, each with a midrib in the same or in a contrasting color. The centermost section of the flower, called the throat, has usually a different and contrasting color. There are six stamens, each with a two-lobed anther. After pollination, the flower forms a pod.
Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the cultivars have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow 'Hyperion', introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely available. Daylily breeding has been a specialty in the United States, where their heat- and drought-resistance made them garden standbys during the later 20th century. New cultivars have sold for thousands of dollars, but sturdy and prolific introductions soon reach reasonable prices.
'Kwanzo' - a triple-flowered triploid cultivar
Tawny Daylily Hemerocallis fulva, and sweet-scented H. lilioasphodelus (H. flava is an illegitimate name), colloquially called Lemon Lily, were early imports from England to 17th century American gardens and soon established themselves. Tawny Daylily is so widely growing wild that it is often considered a native wildflower. It is called Roadside or Railroad Daylily, and gained the nickname Wash-house or Outhouse Lily because it was frequently planted at such buildings.
Hemerocallis is one of the most hybridized of all garden plants, with registrations of new hybrids being made in the thousands each year in the search for new traits. Hybridizers have extended the plant's color range from the yellow, orange, and pale pink of the species, to vibrant reds, purples, lavenders, greenish tones, near-black, near-white, and more. However, a blue daylily is a milestone yet to be reached.
Other flower traits that hybridizers develop include height, scent, ruffled edges, contrasting "eyes" in the center of the bloom, and an illusion of glitter or "diamond dust." Sought-after improvements in foliage include color, variegation, disease resistance, the ability to form large, neat clumps and being evergreen or semi-evergreen instead of herbaceous (also known as "dormant" — the foliage dies back during the winter.)
A recent trend in hybridizing is to focus on tetraploid plants, with thicker petal substance and sturdier stems. Until this trend took root, nearly all daylilies were diploid. "Tets," as they are called by aficionados, have double the number of chromosomes as a diploid plant.[1] Only one cultivar is known to be triploid, the brilliant orange 'Kwanzo' or 'Kwanso,' which cannot set seed and is reproduced solely by underground runners (stolons) and division. Usually referred to as a "double," meaning producing flowers with double the usual number of petals (e.g., daylily 'Double Grapette'), 'Kwanzo' actually produces triple the usual number of petals.
The flowers of some species are edible and are used in Chinese cuisine. They are sold (fresh or dried) in Asian markets as gum jum or golden needles (金针 in Chinese; pinyin: jīnzhēn) or yellow flower vegetables (黃花菜 in Chinese; pinyin: huánghuācài). They are used in hot and sour soup, daylily soup (金針花湯), Buddha's delight, and moo shu pork. The young green leaves and the tubers of some (but not all[citation needed]) species are also edible. The plant has also been used for medicinal purposes. Care must be use as some species can be toxic.
From my set ewntitled “Lilies”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607186495368/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daylilies comprise the small genus Hemerocallis of flowering plants in the family Hemerocallidaceae. They are not true lilies which are Lilium in Liliaceae.
These plants are perennial. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) "day" and καλός (kalos) "beautiful". The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the same stem the next day. Some species are night-blooming. Daylilies are not commonly used as cut flowers for formal flower arranging, yet they make good cut flowers otherwise as new flowers continue to open on cut stems over several days.
Originally native from Europe to China, Korea, and Japan, their large showy flowers have made them popular worldwide. There are over 60,000 registered cultivars. Only a few cultivars are scented. Some cultivars rebloom later in the season, particularly if their developing seedpods are removed.
Daylilies occur as a clump including leaves, the crown, and the roots. The long, often linear lanceolate leaves are grouped into opposite flat fans with leaves arching out to both sides. The crown of a daylily is the small white portion between the leaves and the roots, an essential part of the fan. Along the flower stem or scape, small leafy "proliferations" may form at nodes or in bracts. These proliferations form roots when planted and are the exact clones of the parent plant. Some daylilies show elongated widenings along the roots, made by the plant mostly for water storage and an indication of good health.
The flower consists of three petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, each with a midrib in the same or in a contrasting color. The centermost section of the flower, called the throat, has usually a different and contrasting color. There are six stamens, each with a two-lobed anther. After pollination, the flower forms a pod.
Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the cultivars have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow 'Hyperion', introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely available. Daylily breeding has been a specialty in the United States, where their heat- and drought-resistance made them garden standbys during the later 20th century. New cultivars have sold for thousands of dollars, but sturdy and prolific introductions soon reach reasonable prices.
'Kwanzo' - a triple-flowered triploid cultivar
Tawny Daylily Hemerocallis fulva, and sweet-scented H. lilioasphodelus (H. flava is an illegitimate name), colloquially called Lemon Lily, were early imports from England to 17th century American gardens and soon established themselves. Tawny Daylily is so widely growing wild that it is often considered a native wildflower. It is called Roadside or Railroad Daylily, and gained the nickname Wash-house or Outhouse Lily because it was frequently planted at such buildings.
Hemerocallis is one of the most hybridized of all garden plants, with registrations of new hybrids being made in the thousands each year in the search for new traits. Hybridizers have extended the plant's color range from the yellow, orange, and pale pink of the species, to vibrant reds, purples, lavenders, greenish tones, near-black, near-white, and more. However, a blue daylily is a milestone yet to be reached.
Other flower traits that hybridizers develop include height, scent, ruffled edges, contrasting "eyes" in the center of the bloom, and an illusion of glitter or "diamond dust." Sought-after improvements in foliage include color, variegation, disease resistance, the ability to form large, neat clumps and being evergreen or semi-evergreen instead of herbaceous (also known as "dormant" — the foliage dies back during the winter.)
A recent trend in hybridizing is to focus on tetraploid plants, with thicker petal substance and sturdier stems. Until this trend took root, nearly all daylilies were diploid. "Tets," as they are called by aficionados, have double the number of chromosomes as a diploid plant.[1] Only one cultivar is known to be triploid, the brilliant orange 'Kwanzo' or 'Kwanso,' which cannot set seed and is reproduced solely by underground runners (stolons) and division. Usually referred to as a "double," meaning producing flowers with double the usual number of petals (e.g., daylily 'Double Grapette'), 'Kwanzo' actually produces triple the usual number of petals.
The flowers of some species are edible and are used in Chinese cuisine. They are sold (fresh or dried) in Asian markets as gum jum or golden needles (金针 in Chinese; pinyin: jīnzhēn) or yellow flower vegetables (黃花菜 in Chinese; pinyin: huánghuācài). They are used in hot and sour soup, daylily soup (金針花湯), Buddha's delight, and moo shu pork. The young green leaves and the tubers of some (but not all[citation needed]) species are also edible. The plant has also been used for medicinal purposes. Care must be use as some species can be toxic.
La margherita diploide (nome scientifico Leucanthemum vulgare) è una pianta erbacea della famiglia delle Asteraceae, comunissima nei prati della penisola italiana.
Il nome del genere (Leucanthemum) deriva da due parole greche leukos (= bianco) e anthemon (= fiore) per il colore dei fiori, ligulati, simili a petali. Il nome specifico (diploide) deriva dalla particolare configurazione (diploidia) del corredo cromosomico delle sue cellule.
Il binomio scientifico attualmente accettato (Leucanthemum vulgare) è stato proposto in tempi moderni dal biologo, zoologo e botanico francese Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 – 1829) nella pubblicazione ”Flore Françoise” nel 1778. Carl von Linné in pubblicazioni precedenti aveva usato il termine leucanthemum solamente per la parte specifica del binomio Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, mentre uno dei primi botanici a usare il nome attuale (Leucanthemum vulgare) fu il botanico francese Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708).
The genus Gladiolus contains about 260 species, of which 250 are native to sub-Saharan Africa, mostly South Africa. About 10 species are native to Eurasia. There are 160 species of Gladiolus endemic in southern Africa and 76 in tropical Africa. The flowers of unmodified wild species vary from very small to perhaps 40 mm across, and inflorescences bearing anything from one to several flowers. The spectacular giant flower spikes in commerce are the products of centuries of hybridisation, selection, and perhaps more drastic manipulation.
Gladioli are half-hardy in temperate climates. They grow from rounded, symmetrical corms, that are enveloped in several layers of brownish, fibrous tunics.
Their stems are generally unbranched, producing 1 to 9 narrow, sword-shaped, longitudinal grooved leaves, enclosed in a sheath. The lowest leaf is shortened to a cataphyll. The leaf blades can be plane or cruciform in cross section.
The flower spikes are large and one-sided, with secund, bisexual flowers, each subtended by 2 leathery, green bracts. The sepals and the petals are almost identical in appearance, and are termed tepals. They are united at their base into a tube-shaped structure. The dorsal tepal is the largest, arching over the three stamens. The outer three tepals are narrower. The perianth is funnel-shaped, with the stamens attached to its base. The style has three filiform, spoon-shaped branches, each expanding towards the apex.
The ovary is 3-locular with oblong or globose capsules, containing many, winged brown, longitudinally dehiscent seeds. In their center must be noticeable the specific pellet-like structure which is the real seed without the fine coat. In some seeds this feature is wrinkled with black color. These seeds are unable to germinate.
These flowers are variously colored, pink to reddish or light purple with white, contrasting markings, or white to cream or orange to red.
The South African species were originally pollinated by long-tongued anthrophorine bees, but some changes in the pollination system have occurred, allowing pollination by sunbirds, noctuid and Hawk-moths, long-tongued flies and several others. In the temperate zones of Europe many of the hybrid large flowering sorts of gladiolus can be pollinated by small well-known wasps. Actually, they are not very good pollinators because of the large flowers of the plants and the small size of the wasps. Another insect in this zone which can try some of the nectar of the gladioli is the best-known European Hawk-moth Macroglossum stellatarum which usually pollinates many popular garden flowers like Petunia, Zinnia, Dianthus and others.
Gladioli are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Large Yellow Underwing. The Gladioli is also the official flower of Elmira Ontario in Canada adopted by the council on March 15, 1926.
Gladioli have been extensively hybridized and a wide range of ornamental flower colours are available from the many varieties. The main hybrid groups have been obtained by crossing between four or five species, followed by selection: Grandiflorus, Primulines and Nanus. They make very good cut flowers.
The majority of the species in this genus are diploid with 30 chromosomes but the Grandiflora hybrids are tetraploid and possess 60 chromosomes. This is because the main parental species of these hybrids is Gladiolus dalenii which is also tetraploid and includes a wide range of varieties (like the Grandiflora hybrids).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_frog
The edible frog (Pelophylax kl. esculentus) [1][2] is a name for a common European frog, also known as the common water frog or green frog (however, this latter term is also used for the North American species Rana clamitans).
It is used for food, particularly in France for the delicacy frog legs. Females are between 5 to 9 cm long, males between 6 to 11 cm.
Distribution
P. esculentus is endemic to Europe. It naturally occurs from the northern half of France to western Russia, and from Estonia and Denmark to Bulgaria and northern Italy. It is introduced in Spain and the United Kingdom. The natural range is nearly identical to that of P. lessonae.
Hybridogenesis
Hybridogenesis implies that hybrids (RL genotype) during gametogenesis exclude one parental genome (L or R) and produce gametes with unrecombined genome of second parental species (R or L respectively), instead of containing mixed recombined parental genomes.[5][6][8]
And that the hybrid populations are propagated usually by mating (backcrosses) with sympatric one of the parental species - P. lessonae (LL) or P. ridibundus (RR) providing second, discarded parental genome (L or R respectively).[5][6][8]
So hybridogenesis is a hemiclonal mode of reproduction - half of genome is transmitted to the next generation clonally, unrecombined (intact), other half sexually, recombined.[9][7][8]
For example in the most widespread so called L–E system edible frogs Pelophylax kl. esculentus (RE) produce gametes of the marsh frog P. ridibundus (R) and mate with coexisting with them pool frogs Pelophylax lessonae (L gametes) – see below in the middle.
Because this hybrid requires other taxon as sexual host to reproduce, usually one of parental species, it is klepton[10][11][12]. Hence the addition of the "kl." (for klepton) in the species name.[13]
There are known also all-hybrid populations, where diploid hybrids (LR) coexist with triploid (LLR or LRR) hybrids providing L or R genomes respectively. Diploid hybrids (LR) generate here not only haploid R or L gametes, but also not reduced diploid gametes (RL) needed to recreate triploids.
ヘメロカリス ‘ヘヴンリー・フライト・オブ・エンジェルズ’
Hemerocallis ‘Heavenly Flight of Angels’ (Gossard, 2003 USA.)
height 39", bloom 7", season M, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, Fragrant, 15 buds, 3 branches, Spider Ratio 4.00:1,
Yellow green blend with white edge above green throat. (Flutterbye × Wildest Dreams)
Nikon D3200
SIGMA APO MACRO 150mm F2.8 EX DG HSM for Nikon
ヘメロカリス ‘イエロー・リボン’
Hemerocallis ‘Yellow Ribbon’ (Ezra J. Kraus, 1954. USA)
scape height : 30 inches
bloom size : ≒20cm (7.9 inches)
bloom season : Midseason
form : Spider 4.70:1
ploidy : Diploid
foliage type : Dormant
Color : canary yellow self
Parentage : (Mongol × sdlg #2414)
Nippon Kogaku Japan. (Nikon) Apo-Nikkor f=240mm 1:9
(for Large Format Process Lens)φ53mm P=0.75mm Mount
The magnification of design criteria is Macro Lens of 1:1.
12-piece square diaphragm blade .
Reprographic Apochromatic Lenses used for Large Format Photography.
SONY α7 (ILCE-7)
WISTA-M100
Tilt-Shift Photography
CATALÀ
Nom català: Seneci del cap. Distribució geogràfica general: Introduït (Àfrica S.) Hàbitat: Vores de camins, herbassars ruderals. Forma vital: Camèfit. Mida: 3-5(10) dm.
FloraCatalana.Net
ENGLISH
Senecio inaequidens, known as narrow-leaved ragwort and South African ragwort, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Description.
Senecio inaequidens is a perennial chamaephyte up to 1 m in height, often much ramified, with each stem ending in one or a few capitula yellow in colour, forming a loose floral display. A single plant produces 26 to 500 capitula each year, with approximately 90 florets, 74% of them developing a viable achene.The leaves are linear, entire or almost so and without petioles.
S. inaequidens exists as a diploid genotype and a tetraploid cytotype. Initially the diploid S. madagascarensis and S. harveianus were assumed to be different species; however molecular analysis showed that they only differ in cytotype.
Distribution
It is native to Southern Africa, including Lesotho, South Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique and Botswana.
Habitat
In its native habitat S.inaequidens occurs at elevations from sea level to 2850 m in a wide range of naturally or anthropogenically disturbed habitats such as river banks, rocky slopes, heavily grazed or recently burned grasslands, and road verges.[9] The tetraploid cytotype was only found in the uKhalhamba and Maloti mountain ranges, and this is the cytotype of S.inaequidens which was inadvertently exported to Europe.
Invasive spread
The plant is a wide spread neophyte in Europe and an invasive species in Central Europe.It was introduced through wool imports from Southern Africa. In Europe the ports of entry were Bremen, Calais, Mazamet, and Verviers.
S. inaequidens commonly exists in ruderal habitats such as railroads, roads and motorways, vacant or disused land. They can be seen on disused land as pioneer species but so far often disappear in an ecological succession. In Central Europe where S.inaequidens first spread, the plant so far seems to use previously unused ecological niches. There does not seem a clear advantage over native vegetation, except in higher altitude. In the European Alps ecologists and farmers are worried that S.inaequidens has the advantage of invading grazing fields on the alm pastures.The furthest north it was found was Norway S. inaequidens is also present in Korea and Taiwan.[16]
In South America and Australia the diploid variant S.madagascariensis is highly invasive.
Properties
Senecio inaequidens contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids having hepatotoxic properties that are poisonous to mammals.
This lotus blossom has uncommonly many petals for this variety. The gardener is unsure if it is a diploid or triploid, that is, if it received double or triple the standard number of genes at fertilization. If it seems as though I don't really know what I'm talking about, that's because I don't. I see that the flower has many more petals than it's neighbors, but that's the end of my real knowledge. But my ignorance doesn't stand in the way of my admiring the beauty of this flower looking out over the many leaves around it.
A capture of the phenomenal beast of a cheetah as she emerges from behind the African bush.
The diploid number of chromosomes in the cheetah is 38, the same as in most other felids (though for the ocelot and the margay the number is 36). A remarkable feature of the cheetah is its unusually low genetic variability in comparison to other felids. Consequently, individuals show considerable genetic similarity to one another, as illustrated by skin grafts, electrophoretic evidence and reproductive surveys.
A prolonged period of inbreeding, following a genetic bottleneck during the last ice age, is believed to be the reason behind this anomaly.
The apple variety is Jupiter - a triploid variety - so doesnt produce pollen that can fertilize another variety but needs another (diploid) tree to provide pollen to produce Jupiter apples.
...So all take with no give.
Good tasting apple - hard, sharp and cox type taste.
Standing under the trees, I think it seems considerably less popular with my honey bees that the other varieties near it. Produces plenty of apples though so something must visit to sort out the pollination. Cant imagine this little fly is important to the process but who knows?
Adam and the Ants - Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios
Català
Hemerocallis fulva és una de les espècies de plantes anomenades de forma comuna en jardineria "lliris de dia". És una planta herbàcia, perenne i amb rizoma. És planta nativa del Japó però s'ha naturalitzat a molts altres llocs del món incloent Catalunya. Les flors d'Hemerocallis fulva són de color ataronjat-vermelloses de 7 a 12 cm de llargada, reunides en inflorescències de 6 a 10 flors en l'extremitat d'un escap llarg. Aquesta espècie ha contribuït amb diverses característiques als híbrids actuals d'Hemerocallis, entre ells, els tèpals recorbats i els marges sinuosos, Actualment, és molt difícil de trobar en el mercat donat que ha estat substituïda pels híbrids moderns d’hemerocalis.
English
Hemerocallis fulva, the orange day-lily, tawny daylily, corn lily, tiger daylily, fulvous daylily or ditch lily (also railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, and wash-house lily, is a species of daylily native to Asia. It is very widely grown as an ornamental plant in temperate climates for its showy flowers and ease of cultivation. It is not a true lily in the genus Lilium, but gets its name from the similarity of the flowers and from the fact that each flower lasts only one day.
It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing from tuberous roots, with stems 40–150 cm (16–59 in) tall. The leaves are linear, 50–90 cm (20–35 in) long and 1–2.8 cm (0.39–1.10 in) broad. The flowers are 5–12 cm (2.0–4.7 in) across, orange-red, with a pale central line on each tepal; they are produced from early summer through late autumn on scapes of ten through twenty flowers, with the individual flowers' opening successively, each one only lasting one day. The fruit is a three-valved capsule 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) long and 1.2–1.5 cm (0.47–0.59 in) broad which splits open at maturity to release the seeds.
Both diploid and triploid forms are known in the wild, but most cultivated plants are triploids which rarely produce seeds and primarily reproduce vegetatively by stolons or division. At least four botanical varieties are recognized, including the typical triploid var. fulva, the diploid, long-flowered var. angustifolia (syn.: var. longituba), the triploid var. kwanzo, where the stamens are modified into additional petals, and the evergreen var. aurantiaca. Orange daylily is native to Asia from the Caucasus east through the Himalaya to China, Japan, and Korea. Orange daylily persists where planted, making them a very good garden plant.
Hemerocallis fulva var. fulva has escaped from cultivation across much of the United States and parts of Canada and has become a weedy or invasive species. It persists also where dumped and spreads more or less rapidly by vegetative increase into woods and fields and along roadsides and ditches, hence the common name ditch lily. It forms dense stands that exclude native vegetation, and is often so common that it is mistaken for a native species.
WIKIPEDIA
From Wikipedia:
Dolichovespula maculata is a species of wasp in the genus Dolichovespula and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae. It is known by many colloquial names, primarily bald-faced hornet, but also including bald-faced aerial yellowjacket, bald-faced wasp, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, blackjacket, white-tailed hornet, spruce wasp, and bull wasp. Technically a species of yellowjacket wasp, it is not one of the true hornets, which are in the genus Vespa. Colonies contain 400 to 700 workers, the largest recorded colony size in its genus, Dolichovespula.[1] It builds a characteristic large hanging paper nest up to 58 cm (23 in) in length. Workers aggressively defend their nest by repeatedly stinging invaders.[2]
The bald-faced hornet is distributed throughout the United States and southern Canada, but is most common in the Southeastern United States. Males in this species are haploid and females are diploid. Worker females can, therefore, lay eggs that develop into males.
Taxonomy and phylogenetics
The bald-faced hornet gets its name from the characteristic white markings on its face, as the word "bald" in English is derived from the word "piebald".[3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum. D. maculata is part of the cosmopolitan family Vespidae, in the genus Dolichovespula. Its black and white coloring differentiates it from its mostly black and yellow congenerics.[1]
Description
The bald-faced hornet is distinguished from other yellowjackets by its white and black coloring. It has a white or "baldfaced" head, which is the source of its colloquial name. This wasp also has three white stripes at the end of its body and is notably larger than other species of Dolichovespula, as adults average about 19 mm (0.75 in) in length.[4] Queen and worker wasps have similar morphologies. Queens are always larger than workers in their colonies, though size distributions can vary in different nests, and workers in one colony might be as large as a queen in a different one.[1]
D. maculata creates egg-shaped, paper nests up to 360 mm (14 in) in diameter and 580 mm (23 in) in length. Nests are layered hexagonal combs covered by a mottled gray paper envelope. Bald-faced hornets create this paper envelope by collecting and chewing naturally occurring fibers. The wood fiber mixes with their saliva to become a pulpy substance that they can then form into place.[4]
Mosses, the taxonomic division Bryophyta or the bryophytes, are small, non-vascular flowerless plants that typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched and has only a limited role in conducting water and nutrients. Although some species have conducting tissues, these are generally poorly developed and structurally different from similar tissue found in vascular plants. Mosses do not have seeds and after fertilisation develop sporophytes with unbranched stalks topped with single capsules containing spores. They are typically 0.2–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world, can grow to 50 cm in height. Mosses are commonly confused with hornworts, liverworts and lichens. Mosses were formerly grouped with the hornworts and liverworts as non-vascular plants in the division bryophytes, all of them having the haploid gametophyte generation as the dominant phase of the life cycle. This contrasts with the pattern in all vascular plants (seed plants and pteridophytes), where the diploid sporophyte generation is dominant. Lichens may superficially resemble mosses, and sometimes have common names that include the word moss (e.g., reindeer moss or Iceland moss), but they are not related to mosses. Mosses are now classified on their own as the division Bryophyta. There are approximately 12,000 species. The main commercial significance of mosses is as the main constituent of peat (mostly the genus Sphagnum), although they are also used for decorative purposes, such as in gardens and in the florist trade. Traditional uses of mosses included as insulation and for the ability to absorb liquids up to 20 times their weight. 36392
Indian Yelakki variety of Banana
Yelakki (Ney Poovan ) is the choicest diploid cultivar, which is under commercial cultivation on a large scale especially in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose") and κέρας (keras, "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd. The name has been in use since the 14th century.
The family Rhinocerotidae consists of only four extant genera: Ceratotherium (White rhinoceros), Dicerorhinus (Sumatran rhinoceros), Diceros (Black rhinoceros) and Rhinoceros (Indian and Javan rhinoceros). The living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, belong to the tribe Dicerotini, which originated in the middle Miocene, about 14.2 million years ago. The species diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago). The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their mouths – white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage. There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the Indian rhinoceros and the Javan rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about 10 million years ago. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only surviving representative of the most primitive group, the Dicerorhinini, which emerged in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago).
While the black rhinoceros has 84 chromosomes (diploid number, 2N, per cell), all other rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes. However, chromosomal polymorphism might lead to varying chromosome counts. For instance, in a study there were three northern white rhinoceroses with 81 chromosomes.
PS - Still away and trying to catch up but work keeping me non stop busy and I havent even been out with my camera so apologies that I have not had the chance to look at all my friend's fantastic work.
New hybrid by Jane Lyndsay & Toni O'Connor (Chelsea Gold Medallists www.tyningsclimbers.co.uk/ ) And holders of the National Collection of Passiflora Cultivars UK (NCCPG).
'Lynda Joy' is 'White Wedding' x 'Avalanche' and the flowers stay open for 3 days because it is a polyploid. Also a fragrant, hardy hybrid.
[P. 'White Wedding' was bred by Henk Wouters & Roland Fischer (Netherlands/Germany) and P. 'Avalanche' by Cor Laurens of the Netherlands.
'Lynda Joy' officially has 2/3 genes from P. caerulea (white form) and 1/3 from P. eichleriana in its pedigree.
ヘメロカリス ‘ヘヴンリー・フライト・オブ・エンジェルズ’
Hemerocallis ‘Heavenly Flight of Angels’ (Gossard, 2003 USA.)
height 39", bloom 7", season M, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, Fragrant, 15 buds, 3 branches, Spider Ratio 4.00:1,
Yellow green blend with white edge above green throat. (Flutterbye × Wildest Dreams)
Nikon D3200
SIGMA APO MACRO 150mm F2.8 EX DG HSM for Nikon
ヘメロカリス ‘ガンストン・ホール’
Hemerocallis ‘Gunston Hall ’ (Russell, 1953)
scape height 15 in, (38 cm)
bloom size 3 in, (8 cm)
bloom seasonMidseason
ploidy Diploid
foliage type Dormant
bloom habit Diurnal
Color: ORM1: Orange red medium self
Parentage:
Notes: "Circus-red"- Russell G.c. 1954
height 15 inches (38 cm), bloom 3 inches (8 cm), season M, Dormant, Diploid, ORM1: Orange red medium self.
Note: "Circus-red"- Russell G.c. 1954
Nikon D7100
Nippon Kogaku Japan (Nikon) NIKKOR-Q 1:4 f=13.5cm
(Bellows Lens) (最前期型) 1959年製
Nikon Bellows PB-3
Nikon PK-11
Gladiolus dalenii is one of the most widely distributed species of gladiolus (in the family Iridaceae), ranging from eastern South Africa and Madagascar throughout tropical Africa and into western Arabia. It is the main parental species of the large flowering grandiflora hybrids. This species is also unusual in its genus in including diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid races. The hybrids produced from it are often tetraploids. It produces five tall flower spikes of yellow to scarlet flowers, often streaked red over a yellow ground color, generally with a yellow throat. 9516
Proteas usually flower during spring time. The general structure of the Protea flower head consists of a mass of flowers on a woody receptacle. The ovary is protected by the receptacle and thus not seen when looking at the flower, the anthers are however present at the top of the flower which can then easily transfer the pollen to the vectors.
The common Protea plants, e.g. Protea, Leucospermum and Leucadendron are diploid organisms and thus they can freely hybridise with closely related species of Protea flowers to form a new cultivars. Unusually, not all the genera within the family Proteaceae are able to hybridise freely, for example the Leucadendron mentioned previously, cannot be crossed with the Leucospermum because of the difference they display in a haploid chromosome number. The genetic incompatibility between Leucadendron genera Protea having a haploid chromosome number of 13, and Leucospermum genera Protea, having 12, makes them genetically incompatible for hybridizing, resulting in the pollinated flowers yielding either no fruit, or seedless fruit as the resulting plant embryos, from the incompatible pollen and ovum, fails to develop.
PS: I am now travelling for the next few days and will be in a different time zone for the next 4 weeks in Arizona (GMT - 7) so I will catch up with my flickr friends while they are probably all fast asleep!