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Amaryllis double-flowered 'Bingo' is a variety developed in Brazil. It is a plant with conical flowers, large, beautiful, double and red in color.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
PS. In some double-flowered varieties all of the reproductive organs are converted to petals — as a result, they are sexually sterile and must be propagated through cuttings. Many double-flowered plants have little wildlife value as access to the nectaries is typically blocked by the mutation.
An amaryllis stalk will produce two to five large flowers. The colorful flowers have six tepals: three sepals and three inner petals. Amaryllis blossoms can be up to six inches wide.
PS 2: This double one does not have reproductive systems like the normal one:
The Normal amaryllis have a female reproductive system with a stigma, or pollen receptor, that leads to the ovum or ovary of the flower. Their male reproductive system has several stamens that produce pollen to fertilize the stigma.
The stems or stalks of the amaryllis plant can grow to an average height of 20 inches.
A healthy plant will produce one to two leafless stems.
Amaryllis double 'Bingo' is a variety developed in Brazil. It is a plant with conical flowers, large, beautiful, double and red in color.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
PS. In some double-flowered varieties all of the reproductive organs are converted to petals — as a result, they are sexually sterile and must be propagated through cuttings. Many double-flowered plants have little wildlife value as access to the nectaries is typically blocked by the mutation.
An amaryllis stalk will produce two to five large flowers. The colorful flowers have six tepals: three sepals and three inner petals. Amaryllis blossoms can be up to six inches wide.
PS 2: This double one does not have reproductive systems like the normal one:
The Normal amaryllis have a female reproductive system with a stigma, or pollen receptor, that leads to the ovum or ovary of the flower. Their male reproductive system has several stamens that produce pollen to fertilize the stigma.
The stems or stalks of the amaryllis plant can grow to an average height of 20 inches.
A healthy plant will produce one to two leafless stems.
A Sadhu at the bank of river Ganga, Haridwar. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Clicked at Haridwar.
All the Beauty of Life is Made Up of Light and Shadow
- Leo Tolstoy
Digging around on my Laptop, I found this Honeybee image in the 2015 archives, so here it is. My computer can’t fit into her jeans any longer, so I’m committed to deleting 500 Pics a day until she loses some Gigabytes. We’ll both feel better, and so will my Lightroom Catalog : )
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More Information on the Honeybee than you may want to know:
Honeybee also spelled honey bee, are a group of insects in the family Apidae that in a broad sense includes all bees that make honey. This species is also called the European honeybee or the western honeybee.
All honeybees are social insects and live together in nests or hives. The honeybee is remarkable for the dancing movements it performs in the hive to communicate information to its fellow bees about the location, distance, size, and quality of a particular food source in the surrounding area.
There are two honeybee sexes, male and female, and two female castes. The two female castes are known as workers, which are females that do not attain sexual maturity, and queens, females that are larger than the workers. The males, or drones, are larger than the workers and are present only in early summer. The workers and queens have stingers, whereas the drones are stingless.
Queen honeybees store sperm in a structure known as the spermatheca, which allows them to control the fertilization of their eggs. Thus queens can lay eggs that are either unfertilized or fertilized.
Unfertilized eggs develop into drones, whereas fertilized eggs develop into females, which may be either workers or virgin queens.
Eggs destined to become queens are deposited in queen cells, which are vertical cells in the honeycomb that are larger than normal. After hatching, the virgin queens are fed royal jelly, a substance produced by the salivary glands of the workers. When not fed a diet consisting solely of royal jelly, virgin queens will develop into workers.
During the swarming season, in the presence of a weak queen or in the absence of a queen, workers may lay unfertilized eggs, which give rise to drones.
For all three forms of honeybees, eggs hatch in three days and then develop into larvae that are known as grubs. All grubs are fed royal jelly at first, but only the future queens are continued on the diet.
When fully grown, the grubs transform into pupae. Queens emerge in 16 days, workers in about 21 days, and drones in 24 days.
After emerging, the queens fight among themselves until only one remains in the hive. The old queen and the majority of her workers typically have left the hive by the time the new queens emerge.
The swarm, which typically reproduces during swarming, may form two or more new colonies at different nesting sites.
(Nikon D750, Sigma 180/2.8, 1/1600 @ f/14, ISO 1600, edited to taste)
I find it to be amazing when I see some of the wildflowers that bloom along the roadside and pathways when we are on our walks. Nobody waters, fertilizes, or tends them in any way but they develop beautifully in their little microclimates. I have little knowledge of flower names but have been told these are Wood Anemones. Here I have given a softened look to a previous upload at:
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Frogs have a breeding season. Mother marks caviar, fathers (there are two of them here) they try to fertilize them. The eggs hatch after 5-6 days.
Male butterflies find females by sight, and use chemicals called pheromones at close range. If the female accepts the male, they couple end to end and may go on a short courtship flight. They may remain coupled for an hour or more, sometimes overnight. The male passes a sperm packet called a spermatorphore to the female. The sperm then fertilize each egg as it passes down the female's egg-laying tube.
I have 10 African Violet plants, many have multiple plants growing in one pot... they are all in bloom!!
Very easy plant to grow... some of mine are over 30+ years old... they are in clay pots sitting in a bowl or tray... I water from the bottom once a week and never fertilize!!
Males perform their unique dance, rapidly stomping their feet, and vocalizing, with wings spread, and purple neck sacs inflated, challenging each other, usually in pairs. Eventually, a female arrives and walks around nonchalantly, which sets off a frenzied performance by the males. After a thorough inspection, she selects a male and copulation takes. place. This, her only visit to the lek, will fertilize her entire clutch of up to a dozen eggs.
Black Bears are so fascinating to watch with their interesting individual personalities. A beautiful and too often misunderstood animal that is deserving of our profound respect. For one they help make our forests so beautiful with the way they fertilize the forests with the fish they eat.
Sombrero 2-4, de convexo a aplanado, algo deprimido en el centro. Cutícula de rosa-roja a parduzca, recubierta con una viscosidad gris (si hay humedad). Láminas blaquecinas, grisaceas con tonos rosados o violetas, decurrentes, gruesas, espaciadas. Pie 3-6 alto, esbelto, viscoso, concolor con el sombrero, Carne delgada, Inodora e insabora. Hábitat en prados no fertilizados Hat 2-4, of convex to smoothed, a little depressed in the center. Cuticle of pink - red to parduzca, covered with a gray viscosity (if there is dampness). Sheets blaquecinas, greyish with pink tones or violets, decurrentes, grosses, spread. Foot 3-6 high, slender, viscous, concolor with the hat, thin, Odourless Meat and insabora. Habitat in not fertilized meadows
That's a petal taking up most of the photo. It's flanked by two sepals, which have the same coloring, but are outside the petals. The small white object against the petal is the stigma, on the style, its stalk. The stigma is where pollen must attach, if it is to fertilize the flower's ovary. There are six anthers, each with some pollen on them.
I like the color, a lot!
Thanks for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
It's the French expression I believe applies perfectly to these beautiful blossoms.
Scientific Name: Dombeya Wallichii
Popular names: Pink Astrapea, Dombéa, Bee flower
Family: Malvaceae
Category: Trees, Ornamental Trees
Climate: Equatorial, Mediterranean, Subtropical, Tropical
Origin: Africa, Madagascar
Height: 2.4 to 3.0 meters, 3.0 to 3.6 meters, 3.6 to 4.7 meters, 4.7 to 6.0 meters
Astrapea is a tree or shrub of great ornamental characteristics, which has spread around the world for its exuberance and popularity. It has pubescent branches, and small size for a tree, reaching about 2 to 5 meters high. The leaves are large, perennial, bright green.
Inflorescences appear in Autumn and Winter, and with numerous rose to reddish flowers, with delicate scent. It produces capsule fruits, which are divided into five parts.
Pending inflorescences attract many bees and have pleasant and smooth perfume that resembles the coconut.
Being of subtropical climate, Astrapea foliage is not very resistant to strong frosts. Fertilizations in Spring and Summer stimulate healthy growth and lush flowering. It multiplies by seeds and more easily by cut branches.
Black Bears are so fascinating to watch with their interesting individual personalities. A beautiful and too often misunderstood animal that is deserving of our profound respect. For one they help make our forests so beautiful with the way they fertilize the forests with the fish they eat.
Carpenter bees resemble bumblebees, but typically have a shiny, hairless abdomen. (Bumblebees usually have a hairy abdomen with black and yellow stripes.) The bees also have different nesting habits—bumblebees nest in an existing cavity often underground (e.g., in abandoned rodent burrows), whereas carpenter bees tunnel into wood to lay their eggs. Carpenter bees do not live in colonies like honeybees or bumblebees. The adults overwinter individually, often in previously constructed brood tunnels. Those that survive the winter emerge and mate the following spring. Fertilized female carpenter bees then bore into wood, excavating a tunnel to lay their eggs. The entrance hole in the wood surface is perfectly round and about the diameter of your little finger. Coarse sawdust may be present below the opening, and tunneling sounds are sometimes heard within the wood. After boring in a short distance, the bee makes a right angle turn and continues to tunnel parallel to the wood surface. Inside the tunnel, about five or six cells are constructed for housing individual eggs. Working back to front, the bee provisions each cell with pollen (collected from spring-flowering plants) and a single egg, sealing each successive chamber with regurgitated wood pulp. Hatching and maturation occurs over several weeks, with the pollen serving as a food source for the developing larvae. Later in the summer, the new generation of adult bees emerge and forage on flowers, returning to wood in the fall for hibernation.
A large and perfect example of one of the empty nests regularly discovered in trees after the leaves have fallen, this one about the size of an American football. Almost all species of paper wasps have colonies that do not survive the winter. Instead, they all die at the end of the season and only the fertilized queen survives and goes on to establish a new colony the following spring. Each nest is used only once and is completely abandoned in late fall.
Hibiscus moscheutos 'Extrmag' EXTREME MAGENTA
Swamp mallow and its hybrids have been sought after plants for the past few years now. They are perennials with sturdy stems that have large, tropically looking flowers. Dutch company Apartus offers a series of large-flowered varieties called SUNIQ® XXL. This variety was bred by Cornelis A.Oostveen and patented as PP26417 in 2016.
EXTREME MAGENTA is a swamp mallow variety with extra large flowers. They are dark magenta pink and 23 cm across. Flowering begins in August and depending on plant's age and fertilizing new flower buds can be formed till September or October. Deciduous leaves are deep green, heart-shaped with a long, narrow tip, and in autumn turn amber orange with red veins. Stalks and stems are red, too.
I love the little wings!
The goslings are SO sweet, bringing such a bright note in these difficult times
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The Canada Geese nesting season has clearly been a success again this year! The little ones grow so quickly.
Oh dear, this means that the Stanley Park Rose Garden... and every other open area of the park will be ....well fertilized once again groan....)
My Christmas Cactus Red does well in bright and indirect light. These cheery wintertime flowers brighten up indoor spaces and look beautiful when placed in a brightly colored pot. The flowers have brightly colored downward-facing petals. Christmas cactus comes in a variety of different colors including, yellow, red, white, pink, salmon, and bi-color.
Christmas Cactus Red will adapt to low light conditions, but the plant will produce blooms more readily if exposed to bright light. The flowers are bright red and appear prolifically when in these conditions and when exposed to room temperatures, anywhere between 65 - 75 degrees F.
The plants do like to stay on the dryer side. Christmas Cactus Red looks amazing during the holiday season adding the traditional red color with the foliage a bright green. The Christmas Cactus Red is also a cute gift for a hostess when attending a party or gathering. They are a great addition to any household because they are easy to take care of and add a touch of color.
Light Requirement of Red Christmas Cactus:
The best place for your Christmas cactus to flourish is indoors. Christmas Cactus Red does best with bright indirect to bright direct light. Eastern exposure is ideal, a western window with a curtain works as long as the plant does not receive too much direct light. Too much direct sunlight can burn its leaves, so keep the Christmas Cactus in an appropriate area to avoid this. Protect them from cold drafts and extreme temperatures, 65-75 degrees F is recommended.
Watering Red Christmas Cactus:
Water weekly. Remove plants from any decorative foil wrappers if necessary. Place the pot with drainage holes in the sink so it will be able to drain. After watering let it sit for five minutes to drain. Depending on how hot and dry the environment is you may need to water more often. Optimum humidity is 50-60%. Once all flowers are gone withhold water for up to 6 weeks. Begin watering again when new growth appears.
Fertilizing Red Christmas Cactus:
Do not fertilize your Christmas Cactus while it is in bloom, the blooming period is from the beginning of September and runs all the way to February. Once the flowers fade and drop, fertilize with a blooming houseplant fertilizer. New foliage should begin to appear about six weeks after blooming ceases.
Best Growing Soil for Red Christmas Cactus:
Christmas Cactus Red does best in a soil that provides optimum aeration & drainage, with improved moisture retention. Any mix that contains sand is best because it is optimal for drainage. Drainage is key because it helps prevent rotting which is a common concern with cactus plants that are watered too much.
History and introduction of Red Christmas Cactus:
Christmas Cactus, also known as a hybrid Schlumbergera buckleyi, is a member of the family Cactaceae. They are categorized by their flattened stems and are grown for their colorful flowers that bloom indoor. It is native to Brazil and it grows in the rainforest, on top of trees or shrubs, or sometimes in shady places among rocks.
Proteas are a beautiful and interesting plant family from Southern Africa being very similar in appearance to the Waratah family of plants in Australia.
Proteas belong to the same family of plants (Proteaceae) as Australia's native Banksias, Grevilleas and Waratahs plus they require similar soil and climatic conditions and are extremely resilient plants.
The Proteaceae plants are an ancient plant family from the time of the Gondwana super continent when Dinosaurs were still extant.
Fossils of Grevillea Robusta (Proteaceae family) and feather fossils from this time period have been found from birds believed to be filling a similar ecological niche to todays Honey eaters for fertilizing these flowers.
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Black Bears are so fascinating to watch with their interesting individual personalities. A beautiful and too often misunderstood animal that is deserving of our profound respect. For one they help make our forests so beautiful with the way they fertilize the forests with the fish they eat.
Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds.
Common milkweed is a clonal perennial herb growing up to 1.8 m tall. Individual plants grow from rhizomes. All parts of common milkweed plants produce a white latex when cut. The simple leaves are opposite, sometimes whorled; broadly ovate-lanceolate.
The highly fragrant, nectariferous flowers vary from white (rarely) through pinkish and purplish and occur in umbellate cymes.
Individual flowers are about 1 cm in diameter, each with five horn-like hoods and five pollinia. The seeds, each with long, white flossy hairs, occur in large follicles. Fruit production from self-fertilization is rare.
A fine hibiscus flower. (Hibiscus is the common and also the genus name.) The reproductive parts, most of them, are on a single stalk. The five dark red objects at the top of the stalk are the stigmas, designed to catch pollen for fertilization. The stalk is the style. The anthers, with their yellow pollen, come out of the style below the stigmas. As it happens, the shadow of the whole apparatus is on one of the petals.
Hibiscus flowers can be rather large. This one was roughly the size of my hand.
Isn't God a great artist? Thanks for looking.
There's a lot of corn (maize, Zea mays grown in the world. Part of a successful corn plant is the silk, which serves as a pathway for the sperm to fertilize the egg, in the embryo, deeper in the ear. Aren't you glad that the system works?
I like the fuzz on the back of that leaf.
Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
The anther cap, which looks like a periscope reminds me of ET (Spielberg movie). The reproductive part of an orchid consists of a single column, where situated at the top is the anther cap. The anther cap contains packets of pollen which is placed in the stigma below the anther, for fertilization.
The labellum (pastel yellow in the image) or lip is in essence a landing pad whose purpose is to attract pollinators.
The fly around in tandem like this before and after mating. This pair were busy laying egges in the water. As the eggs are only fertilized as they are laid, the male keeps hold of the back of the female's head which prevents other males from mating with her.
Morinda latibractea is a tall shrub or small tree 3-5 m tall. Leaves are broadly elliptic to oval shaped 8-15 x 3-5, with pointed tips.
Morinda latibracteata is endemic to the rock islands of Belau (Palau).
There are between 50 to 80 species of Morinda, mostly in the old-world tropics. All Morinda flowers are heterostylous, meaning flowers have variable style length to prevent self-fertilization.
Common Names: Palau: kesengelengel
Morinda latibractea, Rubiaceae
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Conducted by the teasels (Dipsacus fullonum) a small ensemble of senesced weeds celebrates the late afternoon sun on a cool winter day. Teasels are native to Eurasia and North Africa, but have spread throughout North America. While they are considered a noxious weed in most states, their flower heads provide some delight after they've died with their intricate patterning. Small cups are formed where the leaves join the flowering stems, and collect water after it rains. Nutrients from dead insects that drown in these pools help fertilize the plant, increasing the output of seeds.
Determining the gender of a small- to medium-sized alligator usually entails a wrestling match, a flip, and a close inspection. This young male eliminated all doubt by exposing himself while preparing to fertilize a mudflat on Horsepen Bayou as a scandalized Snowy Egret (and kayaker) looks on.
the pollinatoris a biotic agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization
Picardy (French: Picardie) is a historic region in northern France that is now within the departments of Aisne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme. Amiens was the region's capital.
On Picardy's fertile soils they grow wheat, sugar beets and fodder crops. Dairy and beef cattle are raised, and intensive vegetable cultivation takes place on the heavily fertilized, drained peat in the valley of the Somme River.
Between the 1990 and 1999 French censuses, the population of Oise increased at the brisk pace of 0.61% per year (almost twice as fast at that of France as a whole), while the Aisne department lost inhabitants, and the Somme barely grew, at a laggard 0.16% per year. Today, 41.3% of the population of Picardie live inside the Oise département, which historically was not part of Picardy.
From an area 30kms North of Paris, close to Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, the Southern boundaries of Picardie stretch eastwards towards Champagne and the Belgian border. Westwards, the region extends to the English Channel.
This ancient region will not disappoint visitors. With its 4,000 hectares of lakeland, 1,200kms of rivers, 70kms of sand dunes, mighty cliffs and brilliant beaches to coastal marshes, forests and bays at the river mouths of the Somme and the Authie, there is always something for everyone to be amazed at.
Artwork made for "Visual Poems" Exhibition at THE EDGE Art Gallery
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LIFE
How mysterious this Universe is
Where does Life come from?
Are We perhaps luminous dust
born in the incandescent atomic heart
of some distant giant star?
Or maybe Gods lurking in non-human darkness
into their magical laboratories
assembled at the beginning of time
the cosmic egg and threw it into the void
to fertilize at random the worlds?
Too many questions
No answers
© Eli Medier
Taken at my SL Home
Put these seeds in your pocket, so when you fall, your body will fertilize the ground and sunflowers will grow in your place.
I'm often surprised by the twists and turns the attack on western society takes. We just found out last night about a local battle...the battle to keep roosters.
It seems our local municipality has decided to kill the roosters on Saltspring Island, our sister island which is only ~1/2 hr ferry ride away.
These roosters are not wild, no! Saltspring is a quiet, rural island with many small farms. The CRD had decided to target these farms and backyard egg producers & breeders.
Roosters have many functions outside the obvious, (providing young chickens for generations to come). They also protect the hens from predators such as mink, raccoon and hawks, as well as, the hens are happier with a healthy male around, and fertilized eggs are high in omega-3, just to mention a few.
Thankfully one individual is having none of this cull, and will be facing the CRD in court (yes, I wrote that right...our local powers that be are taking a farmer to court for not handing over a healthy individual rooster for destruction),
There is a petition too. I found it easily by typing in 'Saltspring Island'/'Roosters' and 'CRD'. Hopefully neighbouring farms resist as well, for one can only wonder how long it will take for the attack to shift to our neighbour's farms on the peninsula and outlying Victoria areas such as Sooke.
Freedoms are eroding faster than we can keep track of. I do not usually post items with info such as this, but isn't it worth the fight...?
Keep your wits about you, post private property signs at the base of your, preferably gated, driveways, do not let officials onto the property, do not reach out to take any paperwork, and do not register your wells or anything else the powers that be want control of. ...for what you register, you no longer legally own. Here in Canada, if you resist registering, (your well for example), the 'Queen' still gives you the right to use it as you wish.
This is an older shot, taken on the same day as another rooster upload of mine. It can be found in the first comment box below if you wish to see another handsome fellow.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, etc. without my permission.
Note: Although I love favs, I will typically respond only to those who leave a comment.
The Tiger Bee Fly is easy to mistake for a mosquito given its coloration. Its large size and fuzzy body could lead one into thinking it is a bee, but this exotic looking insect is, in fact, a mere fly. It does not take blood meals nor does it sting. The black pattern on the otherwise transparent wings may have resembled tiger stripes just enough to use 'tiger' in its name. The larvae, however, are parasites and are more ferocious. Female Tiger Bee Flies lay their fertilized eggs in the nest of Carpenter Bees. Size (Adult; Length): 11mm to 19mm (0.43in to 0.74in)