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« The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980
Its scientific name is from the Greek δρόσος: "drosos" = "dew, dewdrops". Its English name is sundew, from Latin ros solis, meaning "dew of the sun". Both names describe the sweet-smelling, sticky (goo) that comes down the ends of on each flower . This mucilage rolls down the plant, attracting sugar-loving insects day and night. The mucilage has enzymes which digests them so that the plants can get the nitrogen it needs from it. Like all plants, the sundew makes its own food, and just uses insects for nitrogen and other nutrients.
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Common sea buckthorn has dense and stiff branches, and are very thorny. The leaves are a distinct pale silvery-green, lanceolate, 3–8 cm (1.2–3.1 in) long, and less than 7 mm (0.28 in) broad. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The male produces brownish flowers which produce wind-distributed pollen. The female plants produce orange berries 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) in diameter, soft, juicy, and rich in oils. The roots distribute rapidly and extensively, providing a nonleguminous nitrogen fixation role in surrounding soils.
A semi abstract rendition of a carnivorous Oblong Leaved Sundew plant (Drosera intermedia) growing in a wetland.
The modified leaves of these carnivorous plants attract and trap insects using sticky red tipped hairs that glisten in the sun (hence the name "Sundew"). Sundews grow in bogs and fens where nitrogen essential for plant growth is typically deficient. The hapless insects once trapped by the plant are digested with enzymes to serve as a source of nitrogen rich nutrition. The modified leaves have a total length (with stalk) of about 1-3 cm. Oblong Leaved Sundew is widely distributed and is native to parts of Europe and the Americas.
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Blooms June-August, Range; North America , except for the far northern regions.
This plant adds nitrogen to the soil as do all plants in the pea family.
This all white mushroom, known as the Destroying Angel (Amanita sp.), contains a potent toxin (amatoxin) and is extremely poisonous if consumed.
The mushroom is widespread in East North America. It forms a network that is intricately associated with the roots of certain trees and facilitates the uptake of essential nutrients, such as phosphates and nitrogen compounds that would otherwise be unavailable to the host plant ( known as an ectomycorrhizal association).
For more information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel
Photo taken September 2017. Mixed deciduous/coniferous forest, West Quebec, Canada
Camera: Olympus EM5 MkII
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this week in the trona remix
# auroral remix
# Collaborative CPP project -- original photography by Mr. TRONA/Matthew W. Beale [US] and Denim/Donna Dobbin [Canada]
"... in blue twilight ..."
El nitrógeno presente en nuestro ADN, el calcio de nuestros dientes, el hierro de nuestra sangre, el carbono en las tartas de manzana… todos fueron creados en el interior de estrellas que chocaron entre sí. Estamos hechos del material de las estrellas. -Carl Sagan-
I could visually see the pinkish nitrogen fringe moving west to east. From Spaceweather.com "Pink is hard to make because it requires particles from the sun to penetrate unusually deep into Earth's atmosphere. Most auroras are green, a color that comes from electrons hitting oxygen atoms 100 km to 300 km above Earth's surface. Pink requires those electrons to burrow even deeper, below 100 km, where they can find molecular nitrogen. N2 produces the pink. This "nitrogen fringe" appears only during strong storms with extra-penetrating particles from space."
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The light was lousy, but I thought this was so interesting with the song sparrow hopping along and feeding on these floating plants. The pond wasn't frozen and the carpet of plants sometimes very gently undulated up and down, which made me think of a magic carpet.
I believe the plant is a species of water fern. The red color, as explained by UC Weed Science: Azolla is initially green, like duckweed, but soon turns a red or brown color. This coloration is caused by Azolla’s association with a nitrogen-fixing cyanobactrium. In this symbiotic relationship, the bacterium gets a safe home while Azolla is provided with nitrogen.
As usual, Siskiyou County, California
A manufacturing company that uses nitrogen to purge moisture out of their radar equipment waveguides,
SN/NC: Trifolium pratense, Fabaceae Family
The name comes from Latin prātum, meaning meadow, red clover, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae. It is native to the Old World, but planted and naturalised in many other regions. It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility. For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use, mostly derived from T. pratense var. sativum. It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation.
Due to its beauty, it is used as an ornamental plant. Red clover's flowers and leaves are edible, and can be added as garnishes to any dish. They can be ground into a flour.
The flowers often are used to make jelly and tisanes, and are used in essiac recipes. Their essential oil may be extracted and its unique scent used in aromatherapy. Trifolium pratense is the state flower of Vermont.
O nome vem do latim prātum, que significa prado, trevo vermelho, é uma espécie herbácea de planta com flores da família das leguminosas, Fabaceae. Porisso é conhecida no Brasil como trevo-dos-prados. É nativa do Velho Mundo, mas plantada e naturalizada em muitas outras regiões. É amplamente cultivada como forragem, valorizada por sua fixação de nitrogênio, o que aumenta a fertilidade do solo. Por essas razões, é usada como adubo verde. Vários grupos de cultivares foram selecionados para uso agrícola, principalmente derivados de T. pratense var. sativum. Tornou-se naturalizada em muitas áreas temperadas, incluindo as Américas e a Australásia como uma fuga do cultivo.
Devido à sua beleza, é usada como planta ornamental. As flores e folhas do trevo vermelho são comestíveis e podem ser adicionadas como guarnições a qualquer prato. Elas podem ser moídas em farinha. É uma planta forrageira.
As flores geralmente são usadas para fazer geleias e tisanas e são usadas em receitas de essiac. Seu óleo essencial pode ser extraído e seu aroma único usado em aromaterapia. Trifolium pratense é a flor do estado de Vermont.
El nombre proviene del latín prātum, que significa prado, el trébol rojo, es una especie herbácea de planta con flores de la familia de las leguminosas, Fabaceae. Es originaria del Viejo Mundo, pero se ha plantado y naturalizado en muchas otras regiones. Se cultiva ampliamente como cultivo forrajero, valorado por su fijación de nitrógeno, que aumenta la fertilidad del suelo. Por estas razones, se utiliza como cultivo de abono verde. Se han seleccionado varios grupos de cultivares para uso agrícola, principalmente derivados de T. pratense var. sativum. Se ha naturalizado en muchas áreas templadas, incluidas las Américas y Australasia, como un escape del cultivo.
Debido a su belleza, se utiliza como planta ornamental. Las flores y las hojas del trébol rojo son comestibles y se pueden agregar como guarnición a cualquier plato. Se pueden moler para hacer harina.
Las flores a menudo se usan para hacer gelatina y tisanas, y se usan en recetas de essiac. Su aceite esencial se puede extraer y su aroma único se puede usar en aromaterapia. Trifolium pratense es la flor estatal de Vermont.
De naam komt van het Latijnse prātum, wat weide betekent, rode klaver, is een kruidachtige soort bloeiende plant in de bonenfamilie, Fabaceae. Het is inheems in de Oude Wereld, maar geplant en genaturaliseerd in veel andere regio's. Het wordt veel gekweekt als veevoergewas, gewaardeerd om zijn stikstofbinding, wat de bodemvruchtbaarheid verhoogt. Om deze redenen wordt het gebruikt als groenbemester. Verschillende cultivargroepen zijn geselecteerd voor gebruik in de landbouw, voornamelijk afgeleid van T. pratense var. sativum. Het is genaturaliseerd geworden in veel gematigde gebieden, waaronder Amerika en Australazië als een ontsnapping aan de teelt.
Vanwege zijn schoonheid wordt het gebruikt als sierplant. De bloemen en bladeren van rode klaver zijn eetbaar en kunnen als garnering aan elk gerecht worden toegevoegd. Ze kunnen tot meel worden gemalen.
De bloemen worden vaak gebruikt om gelei en kruidenthee te maken en worden gebruikt in essiac-recepten. Hun etherische olie kan worden geëxtraheerd en de unieke geur kan worden gebruikt in aromatherapie. Trifolium pratense is de staatsbloem van Vermont.
Il nome deriva dal latino prātum, che significa prato, il trifoglio rosso è una specie erbacea di pianta fiorita della famiglia delle Fabaceae. È originario del Vecchio Mondo, ma piantato e naturalizzato in molte altre regioni. È ampiamente coltivato come foraggio, apprezzato per la sua fissazione dell'azoto, che aumenta la fertilità del suolo. Per queste ragioni, è utilizzato come coltura da sovescio. Sono stati selezionati diversi gruppi di cultivar per uso agricolo, per lo più derivati da T. pratense var. sativum. È diventato naturalizzato in molte aree temperate, tra cui le Americhe e l'Australasia come via di fuga dalla coltivazione. Grazie alla sua bellezza, è utilizzato come pianta ornamentale. I fiori e le foglie del trifoglio rosso sono commestibili e possono essere aggiunti come guarnizioni a qualsiasi piatto. Possono essere macinati fino a ottenere una farina. I fiori sono spesso utilizzati per preparare gelatine e tisane e sono usati nelle ricette di essiac. Il loro olio essenziale può essere estratto e il suo profumo unico utilizzato in aromaterapia. Il Trifolium pratense è il fiore dello stato del Vermont.
Der Name kommt aus dem Lateinischen „prātum“, was Wiese bedeutet. Rotklee ist eine krautige Blütenpflanze aus der Familie der Hülsenfrüchtler (Fabaceae). Sie ist in der Alten Welt heimisch, wurde aber in vielen anderen Regionen angepflanzt und eingebürgert. Sie wird häufig als Viehfutter angebaut und wegen ihrer Stickstofffixierung geschätzt, die die Bodenfruchtbarkeit erhöht. Aus diesen Gründen wird sie als Gründüngungspflanze verwendet. Es wurden mehrere Sortengruppen für die landwirtschaftliche Nutzung ausgewählt, die meisten stammen von T. pratense var. sativum ab. Sie wurde in vielen gemäßigten Zonen eingebürgert, darunter in Nord- und Südamerika und Australasien, als Ausweichmöglichkeit aus der Kultivierung.
Wegen ihrer Schönheit wird sie als Zierpflanze verwendet. Die Blüten und Blätter des Rotklees sind essbar und können als Garnierung zu jedem Gericht hinzugefügt werden. Sie können zu Mehl gemahlen werden.
Aus den Blüten werden oft Gelee und Kräutertees hergestellt sowie Essiac-Rezepte zubereitet. Ihr ätherisches Öl kann extrahiert und ihr einzigartiger Duft in der Aromatherapie eingesetzt werden. Trifolium pratense ist die Staatsblume von Vermont.
Le nom vient du latin prātum, qui signifie prairie, le trèfle rouge, est une espèce herbacée de plante à fleurs de la famille des fabacées. Il est originaire de l'Ancien Monde, mais planté et naturalisé dans de nombreuses autres régions. Il est largement cultivé comme plante fourragère, apprécié pour sa fixation de l'azote, qui augmente la fertilité du sol. Pour ces raisons, il est utilisé comme engrais vert. Plusieurs groupes de cultivars ont été sélectionnés pour une utilisation agricole, principalement dérivés de T. pratense var. sativum. Il s'est naturalisé dans de nombreuses régions tempérées, notamment les Amériques et l'Australasie, en tant que plante échappée de la culture.
En raison de sa beauté, il est utilisé comme plante ornementale. Les fleurs et les feuilles du trèfle rouge sont comestibles et peuvent être ajoutées en garniture à n'importe quel plat. Elles peuvent être moulues en farine.
Les fleurs sont souvent utilisées pour faire de la gelée et des tisanes, et sont utilisées dans les recettes d'essiac. Leur huile essentielle peut être extraite et son parfum unique utilisé en aromathérapie. Trifolium pratense est la fleur officielle du Vermont.
يأتي الاسم من اللاتينية prātum، وتعني المرج، البرسيم الأحمر، هو نوع عشبي من النباتات المزهرة في عائلة الفاصوليا، Fabaceae. موطنه الأصلي هو العالم القديم، ولكن تم زراعته وتجنيسه في العديد من المناطق الأخرى. يُزرع على نطاق واسع كمحصول علف، ويُقدر لتثبيته للنيتروجين، مما يزيد من خصوبة التربة. ولهذه الأسباب، يتم استخدامه كمحصول سماد أخضر. تم اختيار العديد من مجموعات الأصناف للاستخدام الزراعي، ومعظمها مشتق من T. pratense var. sativum. أصبح طبيعيًا في العديد من المناطق المعتدلة، بما في ذلك الأمريكتين وأستراليا كمهرب من الزراعة.
نظرًا لجماله، يتم استخدامه كنبات زينة. أزهار وأوراق البرسيم الأحمر صالحة للأكل، ويمكن إضافتها كزينة لأي طبق. يمكن طحنها وتحويلها إلى دقيق.
غالبًا ما تُستخدم الأزهار لصنع الجيلي والشاي، وتُستخدم في وصفات essiac. يمكن استخلاص زيتها العطري واستخدام رائحتها الفريدة في العلاج بالروائح. Trifolium pratense هي زهرة ولاية فيرمونت.
名前はラテン語のprātum（牧草地）に由来し、アカツメクサはマメ科の草本植物で、顕花植物の一種です。旧世界原産ですが、他の多くの地域でも植えられ帰化しています。飼料作物として広く栽培されており、土壌の肥沃度を高める窒素固定作用が評価されています。これらの理由から、緑肥作物として使用されています。農業用にいくつかの栽培品種グループが選ばれており、そのほとんどはT. pratense var. sativumに由来しています。栽培から逃れて、アメリカ大陸やオーストラリアを含む多くの温帯地域で帰化しています。
その美しさから、観賞用植物として使用されています。アカツメクサの花と葉は食用で、あらゆる料理の付け合わせとして加えることができます。挽いて粉にすることもできます。
花はゼリーやハーブティーを作るのによく使用され、エッサイアのレシピにも使用されます。エッセンシャルオイルを抽出し、その独特の香りをアロマテラピーに利用することもできます。Trifolium pratense はバーモント州の州花です。
I could visually see the pinkish nitrogen fringe moving west to east. From Spaceweather.com "Pink is hard to make because it requires particles from the sun to penetrate unusually deep into Earth's atmosphere. Most auroras are green, a color that comes from electrons hitting oxygen atoms 100 km to 300 km above Earth's surface. Pink requires those electrons to burrow even deeper, below 100 km, where they can find molecular nitrogen. N2 produces the pink. This "nitrogen fringe" appears only during strong storms with extra-penetrating particles from space."
Tree Grayling captured in the Sierra de Gredos in Spain, where it remains relatively common. In the Netherlands, however, it's critically endangered due to nitrogen deposition and climate extremes. Photo credit to my good friend Wil Leurs, who spotted this butterfly in this beautiful setting."
Then I biked across the Venlo Heath into the Nature Reserve of western Nordrhein-Westfalen and out again to the millennium-old town of Lobberich. Though it's not far away, I'd never really looked at it and the Beautiful Autumn Day enhanced the town's slow attractiveness.
I should have gone before because one of my classicist heroes was born here: Werner Jaeger ( set1888-1971); fleeing Nazi Germany, he became a foremost American scholar.
Here's Ingenhoven Castle set in the middle of a pretty park with huge fountain in the centre of Lobberich. it was built around 1400 when the town was already half a millennium old. Nineteenth-century wool, silk and velvet industry created wealth and a certain condescension to surrounding villages. Soon Lobberichans were designated as 'Wenkbüll' in the local dialect, meaning: Bag of Wind. Today that epithet is taken in good humor indeed embraced.
After the demise of the wool industry, agriculture became again a mainstay of Lobberich economy. Of course, crop rotation is important. The inset taken on the very edge of town shows a flower of Raphanus sativus, Oilseed Radish, used to absorb the nitrogen left in the soil by other crops. Its visitor - beautifully striped velvety in Gold and Black - is a Hoverfly; I think Parasyrphus, possibly nigritarsis.
Nitrogen Plant on the old abandoned Geneva Steel Works being dismantled. Orem, Utah. Photographed in 665 nanometer color infrared using an infrared modified Canon 20D and rendered in channel inverted false color infrared.
Nitrogen Aurora at 3:50 AM on the mo0rning of April 24, about a half hour before morning astronomical twilight started. Both of my cameras, and my mobile phone, picked this up in this purple color.
The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
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Nitrogen Plant on the old abandoned Geneva Steel Works being dismantled. Orem, Utah. Photographed in 665 nanometer color infrared using an infrared modified Canon 20D and rendered in channel inverted false color infrared.
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Liquid Nitrogen, strawberry and acrylic color.
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Don't call it a weed! The small wildflower Trifolium repens is a nitrogen-fixer, enriching the soil.
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"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood… we are made of star stuff." — Carl Sagan
This is another view from my early morning junket last Sunday to find darker skies in Central Florida. The biggest challenge I faced that morning (aside from the 3:45 am alarm) was fog -- there was much of it -- except in this clearing.
The self-timer-flashlight-Milky-Way shot isn't my favorite, but this one has grown on me. It was the second frame I captured, and I was mainly trying to see how much moisture was in the air and whether I could shoot through it.
It worked well enough, and the view was great if not a little humbling -- the universe is really, really big.
Details: ISO3200, f1.8 and 15-secs with a Canon R5 II & Sigma 14mm.
This red disk-shaped phenomenon, is another member of the TLEs (Transient Luminous Events, happening in the middle and upper atmosphere, above thunderstorms) family and is called sprite halo. Under it, there is a group of, relatively small, sprites. Sprite halo is short-lived (some ms) and its color comes from the same physical process as in red sprites (de-excitation of 1st positive group of mol. nitrogen). Halos appear close to sprite tops (alt. ~80-85 km), over active thunderstorms, like sprites. Sprite halos are usually triggered by -CGs, in contrast to sprites which are related to +CGs (99%). There is also a faint stripe of high clouds in front of the halo. The yellow light is a distant ship.
The event happened over the thunderstorms south of Crete (on the east side of the Medicane on 28/10) as seen from S. Attica during the night of Oct. 28, 2021. Faint parent lightning flash at the bottom, behind a cloud layer, can be seen as well. I've used a Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/4'' with 51.2k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ~Carl Sagan
Very early this morning Nick and I and a couple of our coworkers/fellow photography friends headed out to Sunrise, Mt. Rainier. We started our hike up to Mt. Fremont at 2 am and got up there in time to enjoy the night sky for a couple hours before watching an amazing sunrise. Kudos to Gwen for choosing a location with 360 degree views, kudos to Jenn for driving, and kudos to Nick for lending me his powerful head lamp for photos!
I'm never completely happy with my night shots, but I always have fun trying! It was a beautiful and inspiring night.
Blue-Freen Algae Bloom - while quite beautiful, blue-green algae are toxic to small animals and fish.
Algae growth is natural, and some amount of algae is healthy. A lake with no algae would be a dead lake.
But the addition of nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers and other pollutants, combined with hot, sunny days, can spell excessive growth.
There is little to nothing I can do as I am not a farmer, but photograpically it was beautiful to see the rich contrast between water and sky
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Blue northern lights, Lofoten, Norway.
Rare aurore boréale "bleue" (et violette) due à l'excitation, par des particules solaires très énergétiques, de l'azote moléculaire ionisé (N2+) à haute altitude (> 400 km).
Cette photo a été prise vers l'Ouest, entre les crépuscules nautique et astronomique, ce qui explique la clarté du ciel.
Voir aussi :
"Aurore boréale bleue aux Lofoten, Norvège - 12 -"
"Aurore boréale bleue aux Lofoten, Norvège - 13 -"
Rare blue (and purple) aurora. Blue and purple light is emitted by ionized molecular nitrogen (N2+), striked by energetic solar particules at high altitudes (> 400 km).
This picture was taken looking west, between nautical and astronomical twilights, which explains the brightness of the sky.
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Old oak and birch trees on the fringe of Loch Sunart, Ardnamurchan, West Highlands. Some estimates suggest that as little as 30,000 hectares might remain of Scotland's rainforest. Only a fraction of land on Scotland's west coast that has conditions ideal for rainforest, actually hosts it.
The remnant oak, birch, ash, native pine and hazel woodlands are small, fragmented and isolated from each other. Almost all show little or no regeneration due to high levels of grazing; almost half are being choked with Rhododendron ponticum and a fifth have been planted up with exotic conifer plantations. They also face threats from diseases like ash dieback; as well as nitrogen pollution, infrastructure development and climate change.
The Velvet Bean is a long climbing vine and can sometime grow to a length of 15m and produces either white or purple flowers these plants are native in eastern India and southern China, the plants have a short lifespan and they are always grown as annuals. The plants are used for repairing the nitrogen in soil and sometimes people use them to cover the ground allowing the properties of the plant to feed the soil when it rains, they are also grown for animal feed but wild animal will also eat them. The plants can cause itchiness to the skin but the hair like fibres on the pods stick to the skin and these will cause severe itching.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ~Carl Sagan
Sunspots and a partial solar eclipse, seen from Gig Harbor, WA
In the death throes of stars we find our celestial beginnings.
The taste of the nitrogen oxides, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), tropospheric ozone, and PAN (peroxyacytyl nitrate) do not make me drool with hunger, although they fill my mouth with the coppery taste of blood. Perhaps it is my own I taste. The smog is thick today, lingering in the air like a used blanket leaving an oily residue on all that it touches. A few minutes outside and I feel like a scaled fish out of water sucking in breath after breath unable to breathe. How did we get here? How will we get back?
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