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Cotoneaster salicifolius 'Gnom' :: Family
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Cotoneaster can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees, with simple, entire leaves and clusters of small white or pink flowers in spring and summer, followed by showy red, purple or black berries
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'Gnom' is a prostrate, evergreen shrub forming a wide mat of glossy, lance-shaped leaves, with small white flowers in summer followed by red berries
The bright, bold and eye-catching centre of a native angular pigface flower.
Carpobrotus glaucescens is a prostrate, creeping succulent that has long trailing stems. It has thick, fleshy, smooth leaves up to 10 cm in length which are triangular in cross section.
The flowers are initially daisy-like in appearance, 5 cm in diameter. There can be up to 300 stamens and ten styles.
This species is found growing naturally in coastal areas on sand dunes along the New South Wales and Queensland coast.
The fruit tastes similar to salty apples. The fleshy leaves may also be eaten, either raw or cooked and the juice of the leaves can be used to relieve burnt skin or to soothe stings.
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an Australian native plant, Grevillea lanigera ‘Prostrate Forms’ it's common name is Woolly Grevillea
Olympus E-M5 / Minolta MC Rokkor 50mm f1.4
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Larval host plants:
1. Hygrophile auriculate - Marsh Barbel (വയൽച്ചുളളി),
2. Berlerla spp., കുറുഞ്ഞികൾ
3. Berlerla mysorensis - Mysore Barleria ചുള്ളി, കാരച്ചുള്ളി
4. Ruellia prostrata - Bell Weed, Prostrate Wild Petunia, Black weed ഉപ്പുതാളി, പൊട്ടക്കാഞ്ചി (Acanthaceae)
LA: Veronica prostrata
EN: Prostrate speedwell
DE: Niederliegender Ehrenpreis
HU: Lecsepült veronika
This plant is at home on dry meadows, on sandy soils. Spread mainly in Southern Europe, but you can find it in Belgium and Holland as well.
Often planted in alpine gardens.
Tócó-völgy, Debrecen, Hungary.
Apr.15- EXPLORE #92
BETTER View On Black
Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue, -purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America[1]. They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1–8 cm long and 0.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish.
The fruit is a false berry 5–16 mm diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally blue on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May through June though fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude.
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O mirtilo, também conhecido como arando ou uva-do-monte, ou até blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) é um arbusto que pertence à família Ericaceae (família da azálea). As plantas são arbustos de pequeno porte que crescem em sub-bosques de florestas temperadas na Europa. Vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é bastante rigoroso, daí a dificuldade em cultivá-lo no Brasil.
Em Portugal vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é rigoroso, porque necessita em média de 500 horas anuais de temperatura entre os 10º e os 12º celsius. É na zona do médio Vouga, no vale do Rio Vouga que se encontra o local ideal para a produção deste fruto, nos concelhos de Oliveira de Frades, Sever do Vouga, Águeda e Albergaria-a-Velha, sendo Sever do Vouga o que reúne as melhores condições.
An amazing sight on the streets of Brisbane, with ranks of orange traffic bollards prostrating themselves on the road in an effort to bow down really low to the passing traffic, in case any of the vehicles are carrying royalty.
Sigma DP3 Merrill : Sigma 50mm f/2.8 Macro
A very small camellia, low-growing, almost prostrate in form, and with a sweet scent.
Genista germanica (Fabaceae) 104 23
Genista germanica (German greenweed) is a plant species in the genus Genista belonging to the family Fabaceae.
This species grows in Central Europe, Western Europe, and Southern Europe,
These shrubs can be found in thickets, poor pastures, heaths, and dry meadows, preferably on acidic soils, usually between 0–800 meters, rarely up to 1,400 meters above sea level.
Genista germanica can grow to 0.6 meters. These small perennial shrubs may have erect or prostrate stems, woody at the base, with robust simple, or branched thorns. Only the young branches are green, slightly hairy. The deciduous leaves are oval-lanceolate, bright green, and pubescent. The flowers are gathered in short racemes, the calyx is pubescent with lanceolate teeth, the corolla is yellow. They bloom from April.
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Seen growing at Forvie Nature Reserve Aberdeenshire.
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Salix repens, the creeping willow, is a small, shrubby species of willow in the family Salicaceae, growing up to 1.5 metres in height. Found amongst sand dunes and heathlands, it is a polymorphic species, with a wide range of variants. In the UK, at least, these range from small, prostrate, hairless plants at one end of the spectrum to taller, erect or ascending silky-leaved shrubs at the other. This wide variation in form has resulted in numerous synonyms.
This appeared at the bottom of the wall, where it climbs and sprawls and flowers much earlier than the shrubs, so I wonder whether the prostrate form I lost to the frost might be one of its parents...
LA: Vaccinium oxycoccos
EN: Bog cranberry
DE: Gewöhnliche Moosbeere
HU: Tőzegáfonya
The bog cranberry is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere in cooler, moist climate. It grows on acidic soils that are moist most of the year.
This tiny shrub has prostrate stems and small elongated, oval shaped leaves. The flower stems are erect and only a few centimeters tall. When the berries are ripe the stalk lies on the ground.
Langer Filze, Grafenschau, Germany
Trichodiadema pygmaeum is a lovely dwarf succulent shrub with pretty pink flowers and hairy leaves. It is suitable for growing in a rockery and since it is a tiny clump-forming succulent it is perfect to grow in a pot as well.
Description
Trichodiadema pygmaeum is a semi-prostrate, mat-forming, compact dwarf succulent shrub up to 30 mm high. The leaves are oblong and semicircular and covered with distinct hair-like bristles. The flowers are pink, solitary, with short pedicels, up to ± 20 mm in diameter, without bracts. Flowers have no filamentous staminodes. Seeds of the genus are pear-shaped, minutely warty and grooved, brown or yellowish. It flowers from winter to early summer. A distinguishing characteristic of the genus is the crown (diadem) of hairs on the leaf tips. However, T. pygmaeum has no proper diadems.
Conservation Status
It is recorded as VULNERABLE on the South African Red Data list.
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in South Africa, in the Western Cape near Swellendam in Renosterveld vegetation. The genus has a wider distribution range in Namibia, western Free State, Western, Northern and Eastern Cape. It therefore occurs in both winter and summer rainfall regions.
Derivation of name and historical aspects
The genus name is derived from the Greek words trix meaning hair and diadema meaning crown. It refers to the tuft of hair-like bristles borne on the leaf tips.
The species epithet pygmaeum refers to the dwarf size of the plant.
There are 32 species in the genus. They are widespread in the more arid areas of South Africa and in southern Namibia.
Thanks to Plantzafrica.com for the above
(Manual stack of 30 out in the garden)
Every year, thousands make a pilgrimage to Kailash, following a tradition going back thousands of years. Pilgrims of several religions believe that circumambulating Mount Kailash on foot is a holy ritual that will bring good fortune. The peregrination is made in a clockwise direction by Hindus and Buddhists while Jains and Bönpos circumambulate the mountain in a counterclockwise direction.
The path around Mount Kailash is 52 km (32 mi) long. Some pilgrims believe that the entire walk around Kailash should be made in a single day, which is not considered an easy task. A person in good shape walking fast would take perhaps 15 hours to complete the entire trek.
Some of the devout do accomplish this feat, little daunted by the uneven terrain, altitude sickness and harsh conditions faced in the process. Indeed, other pilgrims venture a much more demanding regimen, performing body-length prostrations over the entire length of the circumambulation: The pilgrim bends down, kneels, prostrates full-length, makes a mark with his fingers, rises to his knees, prays, and then crawls forward on hands and knees to the mark made by his/her fingers before repeating the process. It requires at least four weeks of physical endurance to perform the circumambulation while following this regimen.
Photographed in situ.
Goodenia ovata is native and endemic to the south-east of this country, seen in forest and woodland.
Growing to 2 m, but this plant I came across had a more prostrate form.
Flowers are small, with the petals being around 20 mm in length.
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Yingbin Stones – one of the two huge and tall stones stands on the lakeshore.
Namtso Lake, in Tibetan, means "the Heaven Lake". It is honored as the holy lake both for Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. Natmso Lake is the birthplace of the ancient Zhang Zhung which was a powerful kingdom 18,000 years ago on Tibet. Today, Namtso is more popular among Buddhists. It is believed to be the ashram of Cakrasamvara of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. There are four monasteries situated on the four directions of Namtso.
It has become a tradition for Buddhists to make the Kora around Namtso Lake. Pilgrims walk or prostrate along the lake side, and pray to the Lake. The year of Goat is the best year to do the Kora.
Grevillea is a genus of plants endemic to this country. Such unique forms and flowers produced across the genus and now, many cultivars such as G. lanigera Mt Tamboritha.
Here we see flowers that are just beginning to unfurl. Presenting as a conflorescence.
The cultivar is a spreading, low shrub. The primary flowering period is from late winter to spring, though flowers may be seen throughout the year.
Growing to around 40 cm in height with up to 1.5 m spread. The diameter of this flower cluster here just 35 mm.
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Montserrat, Barcelona (Spain).
Anagallis foemina, identified thanks to dbarronoss and to A&T (aka white bear).
ENGLISH
First wrong identified as Anagallis arvensis ssp. foemina because both plants are so similar that people confuse them, since has passed to me. After seeing dozens of photos and reading several articles, the difference was in that A. arvensis has the leaves more oval than A. foemina and the edges of the petals of A. arvensis have more hairs.
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Anagallis is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering plants in the myrsine family Myrsinaceae, commonly called pimpernel and perhaps best known for the Scarlet pimpernel referred to in literature.
These are annual or perennial plants, growing in tufts on weedy and uncultivated areas. The stems are prostrate with ovate to cordate leaves. The flowers of the different species show miscellaneous colors. They are radially symmetrical with five petals. They grow usually in the leaf axils, but sometimes as short spikes at the top of the stem. Pimpernel flowers remain open only under direct sun-light.
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Primero mal identificada como Anagallis arvensis ssp. foemina porque ambas plantas son tan parecidas que la gente las confunde, como me ha pasado a mí. Tras ver docenas de fotos y leer varios artículos, la diferencia estaba en que A. arvensis tiene las hojas más ovaladas que A. foemina y los bordes de los pétalos de A. arvensis tienen más pelos.
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La Anagallis foemina (murrón, o pimpinela azul) es una pequeña planta herbácea de 1 a 4 dm de alto. Con el tallo cuadrado y muy ramificado, cada rama sale axilarmente entre el tallo principal y una hoja.
Las hojas son normalmente lanceoladas de unos 3 cm de largo por 1 ó 1,5 cm de ancho, aunque algunas, sobre todo las más bajas pueden se ovadas. Nacen a cada lado del tallo (opuestas), aunque a veces como el caso de la segunda fotografía las podemos encontrar verticiladas. Son sésiles o carentes de pecíolo. En el envés de las hojas se aprecian unos puntos pardo o negruzcos.
Las flores solitarias que salen de un largo pedúnculo erecto, entre la hoja y el tallo (axilar), por encima de las hojas, en la fluctificación se va encorvando hasta quedar por debajo de éstas mostrando el cáliz. Éste muy dividido con cinco sépalos lanceolados. La corola en forma de rueda con cinco lóbulos (pétalos) de color azul con la garganta de color rojo. Los estambres, con filamentos de unos 3 mm de largo, tienen pelos de color rojo-purpúreos, a veces son de color blanco; las anteras llamativas de color amarillo. El fruto es una bola (globoso) de hasta 5 mm de diámetro con más de veinte semillas en su interior.
La escasa diferencia entre la Anagallis arvensis de color azul y la Anagallis faemina hace que la gente no distinga entre una y otra por lo que son llamadas igual. Se distinguen principalmente en los pétalos con vellosidad y de distinto color de la A. arvensis así como en las hojas ovado-oblongas.
LA: Vaccinium oxycoccos
EN: Bog cranberry
DE: Gewöhnliche Moosbeere
HU: Tőzegáfonya
The bog cranberry is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere in cooler, moist climate. It grows on acidic soils that are moist most of the year.
This tiny shrub has prostrate stems and small elongated, oval shaped leaves. The flower stems are erect and only a few centimeters tall. When the berries are ripe the stalk lies on the ground.
Eckfilz, near Saulgrub
Bavaria, Germany
Dryas octopetala (Rosaceae) 179 19
Dryas octopetala is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies.
Dryas octopetala has a widespread occurrence throughout mountainous areas where it is generally restricted to limestone outcrops. These include the entire Arctic, as well as the mountains of Scandinavia, Iceland, the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere.
It grows in dry localities where snow melts early, on gravel and rocky barrens, forming a distinct heath community on calcareous soils.
The stems are woody, tortuous, with short, horizontal rooting branches. The leaves are glabrous above, densely white-tomentose beneath. The flowers are produced on stalks 3–10 cm long, and have eight creamy white petals.
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Seen growing at Forvie Nature Reserve Aberdeenshire.
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Salix repens, the creeping willow, is a small, shrubby species of willow in the family Salicaceae, growing up to 1.5 metres in height. Found amongst sand dunes and heathlands, it is a polymorphic species, with a wide range of variants. In the UK, at least, these range from small, prostrate, hairless plants at one end of the spectrum to taller, erect or ascending silky-leaved shrubs at the other. This wide variation in form has resulted in numerous synonyms.
This unusual member of the Pink family is an abundant sight on the sea cliffs, rocky places, gravel paths or shingle coastlines around the whole of Scotland. It has sometimes been confused with Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris) which is more erect.
Sea Campion is a perennial herb, having many prostrate, glabrous shoots that form a dense mat, with wax-covered, bluish-green and lance-shaped leaves. Leaves grow up to 3mm long in opposite pairs up the stem and are stalk-less.
The calyx from which the petals appear is a reddish bladder-like fused oval covered with a network of veins. Out of this grow 5 petals, each petal being deeply lobed into 2, giving the impression of 10 narrow petals. The flowers are invariably white, perhaps with a violet tinge, and about 25mm in diameter. In the centre are 10 white stamens with dark red anthers.
The fruit is a light brown capsule which splits into 5 lobes, these curve outwards to release the seeds.
Every year, thousands make a pilgrimage to Kailash, following a tradition going back thousands of years. Pilgrims of several religions believe that circumambulating Mount Kailash on foot is a holy ritual that will bring good fortune. The peregrination is made in a clockwise direction by Hindus and Buddhists while Jains and Bönpos circumambulate the mountain in a counterclockwise direction.
The path around Mount Kailash is 52 km (32 mi) long. Some pilgrims believe that the entire walk around Kailash should be made in a single day, which is not considered an easy task. A person in good shape walking fast would take perhaps 15 hours to complete the entire trek.
Some of the devout do accomplish this feat, little daunted by the uneven terrain, altitude sickness and harsh conditions faced in the process. Indeed, other pilgrims venture a much more demanding regimen, performing body-length prostrations over the entire length of the circumambulation: The pilgrim bends down, kneels, prostrates full-length, makes a mark with his fingers, rises to his knees, prays, and then crawls forward on hands and knees to the mark made by his/her fingers before repeating the process. It requires at least four weeks of physical endurance to perform the circumambulation while following this regimen.
This may be the worst-ever picture of a Sundew but, if you look closely, you will see that it is consuming a Large Red Damselfly.
Drosera rotundifolia, the Round-leaved Sundew, Roundleaf Sundew, or Common Sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. They are perennial or (more rarely) annual, upright herbaceous plants forming either prostrate or upright rosettes, and can live for up to 50 years.
This grisly sight was encountered in a bog near Loch Garten, is a large Highland freshwater loch near Boat of Garten, in the Strathspey area of the Cairngorms National Park, in Scotland, on 28th June 2023.
These lovely little flowers belong to native Myoporum parvifolium, commonly known as creeping boobialla and creeping myoporum.
A prostrate, spreading shrub with glabrous leaves. Growing in to a mat up to 3 m wide.
Flowers are around 7 mm in diameter.
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On a cold winter morning, this beautiful vine hawk moth (also commonly known as silver-striped hawk moth) was a sight to behold. I stayed with it for 25 minutes watching it alternate between being at rest, then vibrating its wings - and what was really great to see was the increased speed by which it did that, as the minutes passed and it gradually became warmer. This pre-flight thermoregulation involves the muscles being contracted to create only a minimal amount of wing movement, which produces as much heat as possible to elevate thoracic temperatures to flight-levels. Eventually, it flew off.
Larvae of Hippotion celerio enjoy grapevine (Vitis sp.) hence the other common name of vine moth. I read that other host plants include Epilobium (willowherb), Fuchsia, Parthenocissus (Virginia creeper) and other related vines such as Cissus.
Seen here on native prostrate Hibbertia sp. Some blur from the highspeed micro-wing vibration can be seen in this lateral shot at the tip of the wings.
Wingspan 6 cm
Link to dorsal view: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/51293100731/in/datepo...
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Catharanthus
Genus of flowering plants
Catharanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. Like the genus Vinca, they are known commonly as periwinkles.[1][2] It is a perennial herb and a subshrub endemic to Madagascar,[3] with the exception of the Catharanthus pusillius species, which is found in India and Sri Lanka.[4][5][6][7] The most widely known species is Catharanthus roseus due to its renowned usage in traditional and modern medicine, specifically, as a source of cancer-treating alkaloid chemicals.[8]
Catharanthus pusillus
Catharanthus lanceus
White Catharanthus roseus
Morphology
The plants of Catharanthus are perennial herbs that are subshrubby, often with prostrate or erect stems that branch from the base of the plant.[4][5] The genus was first described in 1837 by George Don. He characterized the plants by the morphological features of simple, opposite, or almost oppositely arranged leaves. The flowers are usually solitary in the leaf axils. Each has a calyx with five long, narrow lobes and a corolla with a tubular throat and five lobes that can be twisted.[3][9][4] Fruits are commonly made up of two divergent follicles that hold many seeds.[2][5] The corolla varies in color shades of pink, purple, and white.[4][5] There are nine known species. Eight are endemic to Madagascar,[10] though one, C. roseus, is widely naturalized around the world.[4][5][7][11][12][13] The ninth species, C. pusillus, is native to India and Sri Lanka.[4][5][7][14] The plant, as it has been observed up to this point, can inhabit up to 2000 m elevation, particularly those seen in the central plateau mountains.[4]
It has also been mentioned that the genus is closely associated with the genus Amsonia, but possesses distinct differences such as Catharanthus grows mostly solitary or in pairs, while Amsonia grows in groups.[5]
Historical Taxonomy
The genus has undergone several taxonomic revisions since it was classified initially. The genus was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 with the species Vinca rosea (known now as Catharanthus roseus). Along with V. rosea, he distinguished two other species, Vinca major and Vinca minor. In 1828, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach proposed a separation of V. rosea with the new name of Lochnera.[2][11] However, the distinction and descriptions he intended to back up his proposal were not widely accepted in the world of botany and taxonomy. In 1838, it became an accepted proposition and name as Stephen Endlicher made a clear and valid distinction, which includes how Catharanthus is filiform while Vinca is narrowly obconical, Catharanthus is a perennial (a plant living longer than two years) herb or undershrub erect or procumbent, while Vinca is a perennial herb ascending.[2][5] Around the same time, George Don had first described his findings and formally proposed a new genus, Catharanthus. This was based on differences in morphological characteristics of other species in the Vinca genus and V. rosea. In 1844, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle further revised the classification of the genus, dividing Vinca into three sections: Lochnera, containing C. roseus, C. coriaceous, C. lanceus, C. longifolius, C. trichophyllus, and C. ovalis. C. pusillus was distinguished into a different section called Cupa Veela. After these taxonomic revisions and contributions occurred, the name Catharanthus was acknowledged more. In 1949, Pierre Pichon added C. scitulus to the Lochnera section and renamed it Androyella.[2][5] More recently, in 2015, the genus was expanded further with the discovery of the species Catharanthus makayensis by Lucile Allorge, Peter B. Phillips on, and Richardson Razakamalala.[4] C. roseus and C. trichophyllus are also known as sadabahar (in Hindi) and Chang Chung Hua (in Chinese).[2] The name Catharanthus comes from the Greek for "pure flower".[3][9]
Species Descriptions
Catharanthus coriaceous Markgr. - Madagascar
C. coriaceous is typically found in the northern areas or the central plateau of Madagascar, preferring a dry, rocky environment. The plants are relatively small at full growth (hardly ever grown more than 30 cm tall). The one-flowered plant has leaves that are 30mm long or less but are longer than the internodes.[2][4] The follicles are erect or pedunculate, and the corolla is pink.[5]
Catharanthus lanceus (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon - Madagascar
Commonly found in or on the central Plateau, preference for humid environments. The plant's leaves are relatively small, being shorter than the internodes. Unlike other species, C. lanceus branches out many a times and has several rosettes or flowers.[4][5]
Research has been conducted, isolating two alkaloids found in the root: Lanceine and Vinosidine.[15]
Catharanthus longifolius (Pichon) Pichon - Madagascar
Usually found in the mountainous areas in the southeast and northern areas of Madagascar. Named after its leaf shape, which is lanceolate as it grows. It is relatively small, with leaves being less then 9 mm wide. The corolla is pink with a yellow eye, and the lobes are white closest to the base.[2][4][16]
C. longifolius contains similar compound alkaloids as C. roseus such as Cathafoline, similar to the structure of Serpentine and Vindolinine.[16]
Catharanthus Makayensis (L. Allorge, Phillipson on, & Razakamal.) - Madagascar
The newest species of the genus, C. makayensis, was discovered in 2015 by Mohamed Mezaga, Lucile Allorge, Peter B. Phillipson, and Richardson Razakamalala. It differed from other species in the genus with its hexangular cross-section stems.[2][4] It has smaller leaves (2 mm long) and a Corolla with a magenta eye and white lobes. It grows up to 60 cm tall. Only 2 samples have been found in the Makay Massif area in sandy soil and moist areas along river banks up to 400–600 m elevation.[4]
Catharanthus ovalis Markgr. - Madagascar
C. ovalis is found in the southern areas of the Central Plateau and the southwest of Madagascar. The plant has glabrous stems and leaves with an oval shape. The leaves are sessile (petiole less than 1 mm long) and the corolla has a white or yellow eye and pink lobes.[2][4]
Catharanthus pusillus (Murray) G. Don. - India, Sri Lanka, Western Himalayas
Unlike other species in the genus, C. pusillus is a species of Catharanthus that is found in India and Sri Lanka and can be referred to as Sangkhi, Ran-kel, or Tiloni in Marathi, and many others.[2] It is the smallest of the genus and is sometimes referred to as "Tiny Periwinkle" as well, growing up to 20 cm tall. The corolla is white with a yellow eye and the corolla tube can grow up to 11 mm long.[2][4][17]
Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don. - Madagascar Periwinkle, old-maid, rosy Periwinkle, pink Periwinkle - Madagascar; naturalized in Italy, S Asia, Australia, S United States, Central America, India and various oceanic islands
The most widely known species, native to Madagascar, particularly the south-east and throughout the tropics, has been naturalized and cultivated globally. The plant is relatively large (30–100 cm) at full growth. The corolla is normally pink with a purple eye or white with a yellow eye.[2][4][8]
Catharanthus scitulus (Pichon) Pichon - Madagascar
C. scitulus inhabits the sub-arid south in low-lying, sandy soil. Stems spread into pseudo-dichotomous branching, coming together to form a rosette at each node.[4] Similar to C. lanceus, the plant branches out more than the other species. The corolla is pink or violet at the lobes.[2][5]
Catharanthus trichophyllus (Baker) Pichon - Madagascar. Also known as Sadabahar or Baramasi in India.
C. trichophyllus is found throughout the northern areas of Madagascar and extends down the east coast. It's corolla has reddish-pink lobes with a purple eye. Additionally, it has fruits that grow spirally. It's leaves are sub-sessile (petiole less than 1 mm long).[2][4]
C. trichophyllus contains alkaloids such as Vinblastine, Vincristine, Ajmalicine, etc. These alkaloids are also found in C. roseus and used to treat cancer, high blood pressure, and many other illnesses.[2][11]
Uses
In the 1950s, Catharanthus roseus, known formerly as Vinca rosea, was heavily researched when India, and various countries in Africa and the Caribbean used it for its medicinal properties.[8] It is a main source of vinca alkaloids, now sometimes called catharanthus alkaloids. The plant produces about 130 of these compounds, including vinblastine and vincristine, two drugs used to treat cancer.[11][18][19][20][21] These alkaloids are typically used to treat cancer, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and testicular cancer. A less commonly known alkaloid that the species holds is Ajmalicine (found in the root), used to treat high blood pressure/ diabetes. Traditionally, the medicinal properties of the plant extend to treating hyperglycemia, asthma, hypertension, malaria, various infections, and many more.[2][8][11] The species was also briefly referenced when trying to find COVID-19 treatment through the extraction and usage of Jasmonic acid, Methylester, Peniclovir, and Putamonoxin B and D.[11] Other traditional medicine uses the plant for leaf juice application on bee and wasp stings in India, eye wash for infants with flower extract in Cuba and Jamaica, treat insomnia in Malaysia, ease sore throats and laryngitis in America.[2][8][11]
Many of the species, primarily Catharanthus roseus, is also cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens. Several cultivars have been bred to produce flowers in many shades of pink, red, lilac, and white, or in light shades with dark throats.[2][8][22]
Species
Source:[12]
Catharanthus coriaceus Markgr. – Madagascar
Catharanthus lanceus (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon – Madagascar
Catharanthus longifolius (Pichon) Pichon – Madagascar
Catharanthus ovalis Markgr. – Madagascar
Catharanthus pusillus (Murray) G.Don. – India, Sri Lanka, Western Himalayas
Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don. – Madagascar periwinkle, old-maid, rosy periwinkle, pink periwinkle – Madagascar; naturalized in Italy, S Asia, Australia, S United States, Central America, India and various oceanic islands
Catharanthus scitulus (Pichon) Pichon – Madagascar
Catharanthus trichophyllus (Baker) Pichon – Madagascar. It is also known as Sadabahar or Baramasi in India.
Friday flora
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones" and heads. Banksias range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall.
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Century Gardens,
Deer Lake Park,
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan group of more than 50 species which make up the genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some names include "prostrate pigweed" and "love lies bleeding". Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants.
Begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species. The Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates. In cooler climates some species are cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colourful flowers, which have petals but no sepals.
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This was an old welding shop in Llano, Texas. I spotted it while I was at the festival. I had to laugh when I found out it was an old welding shop. I'm surprised it didn't burn down.
I feel really stupid posting the bench shot on Friday. My results came back positive for prostrate cancer so I had to go through that here are your options conversation with the doctor. So, I was a little depressed and not really in the game. I'm better today and the fog is mostly gone.
An elderly pilgrim advances slowly towards the entrance of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. Some would cover the entire distance around the outside of the temple by prostrating every few feet, and others would walk slowly, chanting sacred mantras and spinning hand-held prayer wheels. I presume it still happens.
Fujichrome scan. Nikon F.
Lhasa, Tibet. 1986. © David Hill
Prostrate Cancer liveried GBRF 66769 eases through Barrow upon Soar hauling the Tinsley Yard to Bardon Hill on April 7th 2025.
The tiny 3mm flies visit our prostrate Seaside daisies in the garden.
They are very pretty with their Black bodies, orange eyes and large white wings.
We also see different species of these on plants in the bushland.
Photo: Fred
Glenwood Cemetary - the infamous statue that so many capture - to me, the face resting on the arms is very moving and I attempted to capture just that aspect - added some texture and rotated it, then added the white above to symbolize moving from darkness to light . . .
Here is a link about the "weeping angel" and the cemetary:
Captured at:Soul2Soul Highlands
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I heard or seemed to hear the chiding Sea
Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come?
Am I not always here, thy summer home?
Is not my voice thy music, morn and eve?
My breath thy healthful climate in the heats,
My touch thy antidote, my bay thy bath?
Was ever building like my terraces?
Was ever couch magnificent as mine?
Lie on the warm rock-ledges, and there learn
A little hut suffices like a town.
I make your sculptured architecture vain,
Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home,
And carve the coastwise mountain into caves.
Lo! here is Rome and Nineveh and Thebes,
Karnak and Pyramid and Giant's Stairs
Half piled or prostrate; and my newest slab
Older than all thy race.
Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.
Rich are the sea-gods:--who gives gifts but they?
They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:
They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise.
For every wave is wealth to Dædalus,
Wealth to the cunning artist who can work
This matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves!
A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?
I with my hammer pounding evermore
The rocky coast, smite Andes into dust,
Strewing my bed, and, in another age,
Rebuild a continent of better men.
Then I unbar the doors: my paths lead out
The exodus of nations: I dispersed
Men to all shores that front the hoary main.
I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.
I know what spells are laid. Leave me to deal
With credulous and imaginative man;
For, though he scoop my water in his palm,
A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds.
Planting strange fruits and sunshine on the shore,
I make some coast alluring, some lone isle,
To distant men, who must go there, or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Endemic to this country and unique in every way, Banksia are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting cones. Banksia range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall.
Banksia are naturally adapted to the presence of regular bushfires in our landscape. Fire stimulates the opening of these furry seed-bearing follicles and also the germination of seed in the ground.
15 cm length
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First photo of this livery, not the best but its in the bag. 66769 with the Prostrate Cancer embellishments on the predominantly black livery passing through Thorne Jn. Slightly early running meant the light hadn't gone too yellowy. 4L55 1655 Roxby Gullet to Renwick Road. 25th August 2022.
Many pilgrims prostrate to make their pilgrimage and their dedication more intense in the belief that this will bring them a better rebirth and a higher chance of accomplishing their goal of the pilgrimage , whatever it may be .
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Short-leaved Frankenia
A prostrate shrub growing on the edge of a salt flats.
We have visited this population a number of times and this year there were white and pink flowers. There were more flowers than we have seen in the past.
Photo: Fred
Series of 10 photos
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Genista germanica or German Greenweed is a plant species in the genus Genista belonging to the family Fabaceae.
This species grows in Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Europe. These shrubs can be found in thickets, poor pastures, heaths and dry meadows, preferably on acidic soils, usually between 0–800 metres, rarely up to 1,400 metres above sea level.
Genista germanica can grows to 0.6 metres These small perennial shrubs may have erect or prostrate stems, woody at the base, with robust simple or branched thorns. Only the young branches are green, slightly hairy. The deciduous leaves are oval-lanceolate, bright green and pubescent. The flowers, hermaphrodite, are gathered in short racemes, the calyx is pubescent with lanceolate teeth, the corolla is yellow. They bloom in May and June. The fruits are ovoid legumes of about 10 mm, with 2 to 4 ovoid, brownish seeds.