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Sha Tin, Hong Kong - June 23rd, 2011
Un-retouched and shot under a blackening, post-typhoon sky.
I've become entranced by the thready filaments and almost prehistoric beauty of banyan trees.
I'll add more until the inspiration falls away or I find a greater temptation to explore.
Sha Tin, Hong Kong - June 23rd, 2011
Un-retouched and shot under a blackening, post-typhoon sky.
I've become entranced by the thready filaments and almost prehistoric beauty of banyan trees.
I'll add more until the inspiration falls away or I find a greater temptation to explore.
Sha Tin, Hong Kong - June 23rd, 2011
Un-retouched and shot under a blackening, post-typhoon sky.
I've become entranced by the thready filaments and almost prehistoric beauty of banyan trees.
I'll add more until the inspiration falls away or I find a greater temptation to explore.
A visit to my brothers new house in Bristol today. He and his girlfriend have a lovely lampshade made from magnifying glasses!!
Some pendulous exposed bulbs in a London Teashop which had me entranced as I sipped something delicate.
In the few plants which I have observed in cultivation, the petals, anthers, and filaments of the flowers of this species are extremely short-lived, and may only be retained for a few hours. The buds appear to open in the later afternoon hours and possibly into evening. While the flowers seem to attract a variety of species of very small wild bees and wasps, I also suspect that the flowers may be pollinated by ants (several of my photographs showing the greater inflorescence includes structures which look very much like beltian bodies - lipid, sugar, and protein rich globules which seem to be highly attractive to ants which ingest these bodies. The beltian bodies are common on a variety of Cissus species, so it is not surprising that these are present in Cissus tuberosa