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There are lots of Ichneumonid Wasps and I'm not sure which one this male is; perhaps a Campopleginae of some sort. Whatever... it's enjoying a meal on Skirret in the Hortus Botanicus.
Hierba en avenida del Mediterráneo.
Suena "In Paradisum" de la Misa de Requiem op. 48, de Gabriel Fauré, con la Orquesta y Coro de RTVE:
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
Daniel Carlsson Solander (1733-1782), a student of great Carolus Linnaeus, accompanied James Cook on the Endeavour's first voyage around the world (1768-1771). In the South Seas he saw this Rhopalostylis sapida, which Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-1794) - who went on Cook's second voyage - called an Areca (1786). It's now in blossom in the Hortus Botanicus here in Amsterdam.
I examined it closely and found the male flowers sticky with nectar. It's exuded by the pistillodes - the infertile pistils that the male flowers bear. My fingers were deliciously sticky from having brushed those flowers as Olymp was doing his thing.
Curiously none of the scientific descriptions that I read mention that stickiness. In the inset you can see a few of those pistillodes with drops of nectar.
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
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
Hortus botanical gardens , Martin’s photographs , Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , June 5. 2023
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This pretty Palm with fanlike (=Thrinax/flabellate) fronds is not marked in the Three-Climate House of the Hortus. But on the fine website it's called a Coccothrinax sp. Though no expert in Palms, I'm not entirely convinced. I think it's more specifically rather a Thrinax radiata which has sometimes in a dimmer past been called a Thrinax aurantia; 'aurantia' for orange-colored.
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...
Here's an older one from the library that I missed at the time. I'm beginning to like it more and more.