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You'll often find 'Polistes dominulus' in the literature as well as on the internet. Johann Ludwig Christ (1739-1813), who named our Vespa, had the specific correctly as 'dominula', as recognised by the ICZN in 2011 also for 'Polistes'.
Here it is on Small Scabious, Scabiosa columbaria, where it's just hunted down a grub of some sort. Anyone out there known what it is? Anyway, I thought Dominula would fly away with it, but after a few nibbles it was dropped and our Wasp was on its way.
Usually in The Netherlands our Bright Flower goes by the Latin name 'Primula'. Once in a while you'll hear it referred to as 'Sleutelbloem', Key Flower. That name comes from the way Primula veris (Cowslip) hangs in clusters much in the way of keys on a keyring. Primulas in 'the wild' are generally colored in various shades of yellow and white. But horticulturalists have had a hay day with Primula vulgaris in developing cultivars in many bright colours. So also these in the Hortus's garden shop. And, of course, they're grown for all seasons, early and late. On any glum day, a joy to see...
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Lieden, Rapenburg, Hortus Botanicus. Hothouse, Tropical plants
'De Hortus' is the oldest botanical garden of the Neherlands-- foudend in 1590 by Carolus Clusius. Website: here.
It's been a while since i posted Hortus pics, the last time was some 13 years ago: here, here and here.
La falaise de l'Hortus qui fait face à l'arrière du Pic Saint-Loup. The Hortus cliff facing the rear of Pic Saint Loup
I've always admired the insectivorous plants of the Hortus. And now they have a much enlarged section. Our Forked Sundew - provenance northern Tasmania - was able to really branch out to almost a meter's height. In an earlier post - www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/27181176293/in/photoli... - I've given a bit of a description of the digestive processes of the mucous-tipped hairs below these pretty flowers.
Honeybees 'flap' their wings about 250 (!) times a second . Far too quickly for Olymp to show more of their flight than a rotor movement (see inset). In the main photo Apis has collected lots of pollen and is now delving for nectar in a flower of Augustine's Rhododendron.
Augustine Henry (1857-1930) - for whom William Botting Hemsley (1843-1924) named that flowering shrub - must've been busy as a Bee himself. He studied natural sciences and philosophy winning a Gold Medal and then went on to do a crash course in medicine. He didn't much want to enter 'boring' medical practice in some town in Great Britain or Ireland. Henry was encouraged to enter the British Custom Services. He quickly learned the rudiments of Chinese (Mandarin) and at the age of 24 was posted to Shanghai. Soon after he was sent to Yichang (Incanh) in Hubei, China. Life as a customs official there was boring, and Henry took up botany, first as a collector of plants. He was to become a versatile botanist who became an expert on Chinese plants and sent an enormous collection back to England. Among them this Rhododendron. Departing China (1900), Henry studied forestry in France and was appointed to the first readership in forestry at the university of Cambridge and in 1913 to the first chair in forestry in Dublin, Ireland. Busy Bee, indeed.
This agave plant resides at De Hortus in Amsterdam. Said to be forty years old, the bloom is also the death of the plant. www.dehortus.nl/?lang=en
Painswick Rococo Garden, Gloucestershire
Follow my year-long artist residency on Twitter @hortus_lucis
Extending my practice as a mobile photographer into alternative processes: most importantly, Anthotypes (prints made from vegetable dyes)
A part of the Amsterdam Light Festival leads to the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus...for some reason I found the illuminated trees more interesting than the art objects...