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Grevillea × gaudichaudii is a natural hybrid between G. acanthifolia subsp. acanthifolia and G. laurifolia. Commonly cultivated.
Introduced cool-season biennial or short lived perennial legume; stems are semi prostrate to erect, thick and 30-160 cm tall. Leaves are pinnate with 7-15 pairs of round to oval leaflets and succulent; upper surface is hairless and lower surface is hairy. Flowerheads are racemes with up to 35 pea-like flowers; petals are red to crimson. Pods are 3-8-segmented and have a rough short thorny surface. A native of the Mediterranean region, it is sown as a short-term ley legume in cropping systems. It produces large quantities of high quality feed in winter and spring. It can be grazed or cut for hay (less leaf drop than lucerne, but thicker stems are more difficult to dry) or silage, but is not suitable for use in grass/legume pastures.
Also know as the "Stash-8" this airplane is proudly sporting a mustache in support of Movember and Prostrate Cancer Canada.
This is one clone of a naturally occurring prostrate form of C. glauca that grows on coastal cliffs in central New South Wales.
A devotee prostrates before the magnificent Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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Introduced, warm-season, perennial, prostrate herb covered in stiff hairs. Stems are to 15 cm long. Leaves are opposite, hairy, narrow-ovate to ovate,0.5-2 cm long and 0.3-1 cm wide. Flowerheads are heads of up to 15 small white flowers, mostly with 4 petals and sepals. Flowering is from spring to autumn. A native of South America, it is a weed in coastal districts south from Newcastle in disturbed places, such as over-grazed pastures, stockyards and roadsides. An indicator of disturbance and poor ground cover. Of little importance to livestock grazing, as it usually occurs in low abundance, is very low growing and produces little bulk. Control is not required; abundance is suppressed with healthy vigorous pastures.
Introduced, warm season, annual or short-lived perennial, prostrate herb with reddish
stems to 80cm long and a woody taproot. Leaves consist of 4-8 pairs of leaflets (4-12mm long); leaflets are dark green above and silvery-grey below; hairs mostly restricted to the midrib and margins. Solitary flowers in the axils are small, bright yellow and 5-petalled. Fruit have 5 segments each bearing short hard spines. Flowers from spring to autumn. A weed in pastures and fallowed cropping country. Often found around sheds, laneways and roadsides. In urban areas it is regarded as a nuisance weed on footpaths and playing fields. It easily attaches to machinery, tyres, animals and shoes aiding its spread. The spiny fruit can cause vegetable fault in wool and lameness to stock. Becomes dominant when other vegetation is removed by fallows, droughts or overgrazing. Prevention of spread is the best control measure. Establish competitive pastures to outcompete catheads. A wide range of herbicides can be used. Grazing with cattle is preferred as photosensitisation, nitrate poisoning and staggers in sheep have been known to occur.
Nodding Spurge or Eyebane - Chamaesyce nutans - is a native plant that is a summer annual that becomes 3-18 inches tall; it is low and spreading, but not prostrate (flat against the ground). The stems are pinkish red, round, and hairless, except for a few fine hairs on new growth. The inflorescence consists of a small cyathium on a straight pedicel. Usually, several cyathia develop near the ends of each major stem when a plant is mature. A cyathium is a small cup-like structure containing the pistillate flower and one or more staminate flowers, which have neither true petals nor sepals. It is initially green, but often turns red in bright sunlight. On this particular species, the cyathium has 4 tiny petal-like appendages that are bright white. Eventually, a round tripartite fruit develops from the cyathium on a short stalk; it often turns red in bright sunlight as well. Found throughout the eastern U.S. Habitats include dry upland areas of prairies, thickets, openings in upland woodlands, fields and pastures (whether abandoned or still in use), areas along roadsides and railroads, poorly maintained lawns and gardens, and miscellaneous waste areas. This plant prefers disturbed open areas and it is somewhat weedy. The tiny flowers occasionally attract small bees, Syrphid flies, and wasps. These insects seek nectar primarily. The seeds are consumed by the Mourning Dove and Greater Prairie Chicken, and to a lesser extent by the Bobwhite and Horned Lark. The Wild Turkey has been known to eat the foliage, developing buds, and fruits, apparently without ill effects. Mammalian herbivores rarely eat this plant because of the poisonous white latex in the stems and foliage. Native Americans rubbed the stem sap on their skin for itching and eczema and applied a poultice of crushed leaves to sores. The Nodding Spurge can be readily distinguished from other Chamaesyce spp. by its more erect habit, larger leaves, and mostly hairless stems. Horn and Cathcart, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/nod_spurge.htm www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CHNU9 www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=441
[Caption]. (Brian K. Smith photo.)
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Introduced, cool season, annual, prostrate to more or less erect, more or less hairy herbaceous legume. Leaves are 3-foliolate and hairless on the upper surface, with terminal leaflets 10–25 mm long and 10–32 mm wide; leaflets are marked by an upper central blotch or a very wide shield occupying the basal two-thirds of the leaflet. Stipules are strongly toothed and hairy on the lower surface. Flowerheads are 2–5-flowered; the peduncle is shorter than subtending petiole. Calyx teeth are equal in length to the calyx tube and the corolla is yellow.
The prostrate habit and relative broad ovate leaves are distinctive of this species and distinguish it from Amaranthus blitoides, which is another often prostrate amaranth in this area. Like Amaranthus blitoides, the flowers are congested into axillary clusters, but each bears 1-3 sepals and these are not obscured by the short subtending flower bracts. This site lies on a newly constructed area involving the Animal Bioscience Building on the Montana State University campus, Bozeman.
About this photo: Litany of Supplication - During the litany, the candidate lies prostrate before the altar as an expression of humility. The Litany of the Saints is sung and prayer is offered to God and the intercession of the Virgin Mary and all the Saints is invoked.
Elizabeth Black, principal of St. Stephen Catholic School in E. Grand Rapids, was consecrated according to the Rite of the Consecration of Virgins Living in the World by Bishop David Walkowiak during a Mass on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021 at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Grand Rapids. This vocation is for the whole Church, and all the faithful of the diocese were invited to attend.
This ancient vocation, the vocation of Roman martyrs Agnes and Lucy, among others, is a mystical espousal to Christ and a visible reminder of the union that we are all called to live with Christ in heaven. The virgin is consecrated in a solemn rite by the bishop of the diocese, and she is an image of the Church’s single-hearted love for Jesus. During the rite, the virgin receives a wedding ring as the symbol of her vocation.
To learn more about vocations to consecrated religious life, visit the Vocations section of our website at grdiocese.org.
(Photo by Emma Rolf)
I have to admit to feeling awful taking this shot. But I know photography is ultimately about people, in all of their forms and circumstances. This was on Nathan Road in Hong Kong in amongst the Prada and Gucci shops. I dropped a couple of coins in his plastic tub and came over all embarrassed about it. It's difficult to reconcile the poverty along with the sheer glitz of the place, but there you are, our world in all its gritty reality. Having said that, I live in London and walk past homeless people all the time. Easier to ignore it at home eh...
Native cool-season annual or short-lived perennial herb with prostrate or weakly erect stems which root at the nodes and are sparsely covered in long white hairs. Leaves are 1-2 times divided, 1-4 cm long and sparsely hairy to nearly hairless. Flowerheads consist of solitary heads held above the leaves on slender stalks. Heads are hemispherical, 4-5 mm wide and usually creamy to yellow-green. Fruit are 1–1.5 mm long and flattened, with narrow thickened wings or wingless. Flowers in winter and spring. Found in moist, often disturbed, areas of lawns, grasslands, woodlands and grassy forests. Native biodiversity. An indicator of bare ground and reduced competition. A minor species of pastures, being most common in short, moist areas. Of little importance to stock, as it produces little bulk, is not readily eaten and is rarely abundant.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to round and 4-13 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are loose to somewhat dense hemispherical clusters (6-7 mm long) of 3-20 yellow pea-like flowers. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is found in pastures, woodlands, lawns and roadsides. Although it often occurs at reasonably high density in short pastures, productivity is low and it has a high proportion of stem to leaf. It is palatable and grows from autumn to early summer (very dependent on rainfall), but only produces useful amounts of feed in spring. Requires moist soil for growth, so tends to burn-off rapidly in late spring as temperatures rise and soil moisture often remains low. Growth increases with applied phosphorus as long as pastures are kept short in late winter and early spring, but the response is likely to be too small to be economic.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to round and 4-13 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are loose to somewhat dense hemispherical clusters (6-7 mm long) of 3-20 yellow pea-like flowers. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is found in pastures, woodlands, lawns and roadsides. Although it often occurs at reasonably high density in short pastures, productivity is low and it has a high proportion of stem to leaf. It is palatable and grows from autumn to early summer (very dependent on rainfall), but only produces useful amounts of feed in spring. Requires moist soil for growth, so tends to burn-off rapidly in late spring as temperatures rise and soil moisture often remains low. Growth increases with applied phosphorus as long as pastures are kept short in late winter and early spring, but the response is likely to be too small to be economic.
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. (Photo 123) — is a
smooth or slightly hairy, tufted, prostrate to ascending
annual grass 30-90 cm tall. The white or
pale green stem is laterally flattened, smooth or
with a few long hairs along the edges. The leaf
sheath is 6-9 cm long, flattened laterally, with a few
long hairs at the collar. The leaf blade is flat or
folded, linear-lanceolate, 10-30 cm long and 3-6
mm wide with almost parallel margins and a rather
blunt tip. It has a few scattered hairs on the upper
surface. The ligule is membranous with a jagged
edge. Long hairs occur on the margins at the
junction of the blade and sheath.
The inflorescence is digitate, profusely branching
at the base (Photo 124). It occasionally roots at
the lower nodes. The terminal whorl of 3-6 spikes
is 4-8 cm long and 3-6 mm wide. It often has 1-2
additional spikes slightly below the others. The
numerous spikelets are sessile, awnless, 4-5 mm
long, laterally compressed, and crowded into 2
rows along the underside of the flattened rachis.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Plants in a carpark amenity planting in Jindalee, western Brisbane.
This prostrate, sea-cliff-dwelling form of F. macrocarpa, with very thick, orbicular leaves, is originally from Lutao (aka Green Island), a small volcanic island 33 km out into the Pacific from the east coast of Taiwan.
Introduced, cool-season, annual, low-growing, hairless legume, with prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves have 3 leaflets, each oblong to round and 4-13 mm long. The central leaflet has a distinctly longer stalk than the lateral ones. Flowerheads are loose to somewhat dense hemispherical clusters (6-7 mm long) of 3-20 yellow pea-like flowers. Flowering is in spring. A native of Europe, it is found in pastures, woodlands, lawns and roadsides. Although it often occurs at reasonably high density in short pastures, productivity is low and it has a high proportion of stem to leaf. It is palatable and grows from autumn to early summer (very dependent on rainfall), but only produces useful amounts of feed in spring. Requires moist soil for growth, so tends to burn-off rapidly in late spring as temperatures rise and soil moisture often remains low. Growth increases with applied phosphorus as long as pastures are kept short in late winter and early spring, but the response is likely to be too small to be economic.
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Here at Round Head Headland near Town of 1770 this species occurs side by side in both red and white (or cream) coloured forms.
Interestingly, this is the site where Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, presumably who the species was named after, came ashore on the 24th May 1770.
The following is from Tony Rodd - re the naming of Grevillea banksii. ((See comment on another photo)
G. banksii was named by Robert Brown in 1810, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Brown stated its origin as "In Novae Hollandiae ora orientale: Keppel Bay, Pine Port, &c". The actual specimen in the British Museum, chosen as lectotype by McGillivray and Makinson from among Brown's collections in the British Museum, is cited by them as "Port I [between Facing and Curtis Islands, near Gladstone]".
Here is a few other pics I have of a taller growing Grevillea banksii I have growing here at home.
gardening,flowers
Type of plant: Alpines and Rock Gardens, Shrubs
Bloom color: Inconspicuous/none
Bloom time of year: N/A
Sun requirements: Full Sun, Sun to Partial Shade
Cold hardiness: Zone 5a to Zone 9b
Height: 18-24 in. (45-60 cm), 24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
Spacing: 4-6 ft. (1.2-1.8 m)
Photo copyright Equilibrium at Dave's Garden.
Reliving my to trip to Europe Sept - Nov 2012.
Tipu's Tiger in The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London Oct 21, 2012 England. Day one of our stay in London.. Wish I could have had more as this is where I lived for sixteen years. The weather was overcast and just about raining.. but it wasn't cold!
Tipu's Tiger or Tippoo's Tiger is an 18th-century automaton or mechanical toy created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and man's bodies make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes.
The tiger was created for Tipu and makes use of his personal emblem of the tiger and expresses his hatred of his enemy, the British of the East India Company. The tiger was discovered in his summer palace after East India Company troops stormed Tipu's capital in 1799. The Governor General, Lord Mornington sent the Tiger to Britain initially intending it to be an exhibit in the Tower of London. First exhibited to the London public in 1808 in East India House, then the offices of the East India Company in London, it was later transferred to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1880 (accession number 2545(IS)). It now forms part of the permanent exhibit on the "Imperial courts of South India". From the moment it arrived in London to the present day, Tipu's Tiger has been a popular attraction to the public.
Prostrate Broom (Cytisus scoparius ssp. maritimus). The maritime subspecies of Broom, confined to sea cliffs. Young stems are distinctively silkily-downy and silvery. Les Landes, Jersey.
The prostrate rosemary in my herb bed.
And for MSH members: rosemary is a herb. It does not have babies, it has flowers.
Introduced, cool season, annual, prostrate to more or less erect, more or less hairy herbaceous legume. Leaves are 3-foliolate and hairless on the upper surface, with terminal leaflets 10–25 mm long and 10–32 mm wide; leaflets are marked by an upper central blotch or a very wide shield occupying the basal two-thirds of the leaflet. Stipules are strongly toothed and hairy on the lower surface. Flowerheads are 2–5-flowered; the peduncle is shorter than subtending petiole. Calyx teeth are equal in length to the calyx tube and the corolla is yellow.
Introduced, warm-season, annual to short-lived
perennial, prostrate to sprawling legume. Stems are hairless to densely bristly. Leaves are
pinnate, with 20-50 leaflets, each 3-15 mm long. Flowerheads consist of clusters of 3-10 yellow pea-like
flowers in the leaf axils. Pods are divided into 3-7 segments and covered in dense soft or stiffly erect hairs. Flowers throughout the growing season. A native of North America, it is sown for grazing or as an orchard ground cover. Best suited to soils with a pH(Ca) greater than 5, an annual rainfall of more than 1000 mm and where moisture is retained. It is not very persistent on poor
country. A palatable and high quality feed, it produces
moderate yields under good conditions. Not very drought tolerant and is susceptible to
powdery mildew. Responds strongly to phosphorus applications, but will tolerate low fertility (although much lower
yielding). Tolerates heavy grazing and benefits from levels of grazing which reduce shading by grasses.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
Introduced, warm-season, annual, erect or prostrate, tufted grass to 1 m tall. Leaves are flat, hairless (except for a few scattered hairs near the base) and usually have a pale midrib. There is no ligule. Flowerheads are an erect primary axis of racemes (to 22 cm long) with relatively short branches; with conspicuous hairs in the axils and along the racemes. Spikelets are 2.5-4 mm long and 2 flowered (fertile lemma smooth and shiny), with the apices ending abruptly in a short point or having an awn to 5 cm long. Flowers during the warmer months. Possibly a native of Asia, it is a common weed of disturbed areas, especially where there is excess moisture (e.g. wasteland, agricultural land, riverbanks, drains, shallow/drying swamps). An indicator of disturbed moist areas. A weed of summer crops. Produces palatable and good quality feed when grazed during early growth stages, but becomes harsh and unpalatable when mature. Toxic levels of nitrate can accumulate in the plant; this is especially dangerous when the plant is wilted and more attractive to stock. Rarely managed individually in pastures due to its low abundance in coastal pastures. Will decrease where dense ground cover is maintained over summer.
Prostrate knotweed initially grows erect like the native Polygonum douglasii, the latter of which is not known from roadsides in the Idaho National Laboratory (and has nodding flowers tepals that are not so white). Polygonum aviculare is an abundant roadside plant along the roads in the Upper Snake River Plains. This site occurs in the Idaho National Laboratory along highway 33 to the east of Howe, Butte County, Idaho.
Boraginaceae (forget-me-not family) » Coldenia procumbens
kol-DEN-ee-uh -- named for Cadwallader Colden, correspondent of Linnaeus
pro-KUM-benz -- lying along the ground
commonly known as: creeping coldenia • Gujarati: basario okharad • Hindi: त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Kannada: ಹಂಸಪಾದಿ hamsapaadi • Konkani: तिरपंखी tirpunkhi • Marathi: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi, त्रिपंखी tripankhi • Oriya: moyinibuta • Sanskrit: त्रिपक्षी tripakshi • Tamil: ஆற்றுச்செருப்படி arru-c-ceruppati, தலைவிரிச்சான் talai-viriccan • Telugu: హంసపాది hamsa-padi
Native range obscure: tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, s-e Asia, n Australia; naturalized elsewhere
References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • ENVIS - FRLHT • DDSA
Since, then, there was needed a lifting up from death for the whole of our nature, He stretches forth a hand as it were to prostrate humanity, and stooping down to our dead corpse He came so far within the grasp of death as to touch a state of deadness, and then in His own body to bestow on our nature the principle of the resurrection, raising as He did by His power along with Himself the whole human being. For since from no other source than from the concrete lump of our nature had come that flesh, which was the receptacle of the Godhead and in the resurrection was raised up together with that Godhead, therefore just in the same way as, in the instance of this body of ours, the operation of one of the organs of sense is felt at once by the whole system, as one with that member, so also the resurrection principle of this Member, as though the whole of humankind was a single living being, passes through the entire race, being imparted from the Member to the whole by virtue of the continuity and oneness of the nature. What, then, is there beyond the bounds of probability in what this Revelation teaches us; viz. that He Who stands upright stoops to one who has fallen, in order to lift him up from his prostrate condition?
Gregory of Nyssa,
The Great Catechism, 32
A spot of over indulgence, me-thinks.
This guy was spotted on the way to Victoria, via the cathedral, after work .
Manchester, UK.
19 April, 2011.
My Street Photography set.