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A very small camellia, low-growing, almost prostrate in form, and with a sweet scent.
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...
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: 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
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.
Inside the hirsute, purple petals of the Eastern Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens) is a miniature firework of yellow anthers with a white stigma fountain in the center. I recently discovered a large population of these flowers by the light of the full moon in a place near Boulder where I have been night-hiking for years. They are closed up at night though, and the daytime view is a bit more inviting.
I have heard from far more accomplished macro photographers than I that the key to photos like this is to get down on one's belly and meet the flower on its own turf, as it were. When I saw this diminutive specimen in the forest off to the side of the trail, I dutifully attempted the move, prostrating myself on the forest floor as my family stood by, wondering how long I might make them wait. As it turned out, the mutt also took this posture as his cue to run up, step directly on my photographic subject, and roll over, waiting for me to pet him. My wife called him back and amazingly the flower was fine - I took this photo after he had returned to sniffing about further down the trail. So far, I have discovered that dogs are neither helpful gardeners nor helpful photographic assistants.
Happy spring-time!
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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.
Source: Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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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.
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.
The origins of the present South Carolina State House, a fine example of neoclassical architecture and the third in the State's history, can be traced back to the 1849 recommendation of Govenor Whitemarsh B. Seabrooks that a fireproof building be constructed by the State to protect its historic papers. The cornerstone for such a facility was laid in 1851, but 2 years later the legislature expanded the project to include construction of a new capitol. By 1851, work was proceeding rapidly but had to be stopped when it was discovered that poor workmanship and materials had caused the walls to crack. At this juncture, John Rudolph Niernsee, an Austrian-born architect then residing in Baltimore, was hired to oversee the project. Niernsee drafted a new design for the building—which would be followed with few exceptions until completion—and late in 1855, after the cracked walls had been razed, construction resumed. Using granite from the nearby Congaree River and $1,240,032 in legislative appropriations, Niernsee, by 1860, had completed most of the exterior work on the new capitol, and by 1862 its vaults were ready to receive the public papers.
During the Civil War, construction continued albeit on a somewhat limited basis. In February 1865, William T. Sherman and the Union Army occupied Columbia, and he ordered a number of public buildings including the old state house put to the torch. For some unknown reason, Sherman spared the unfinished state house. Although some have claimed he admired its beauty and left it alone for that reason, South Carolina historian A.S. Salley offers a more likely explanation: "He probably wished to save the store of explosives it would have taken to blow it up and he probably feared injury to his reckless, drunken soldiers in the explosions." Despite the exemption, the structure did suffer damage from shelling and the burning of the nearby old state house. Sherman's men also destroyed $700,000 worth of finished marble and other materials as well as Niernsee's models and plans.
In the first years after the war, work on the building proceeded very slowly. Not until 1869 was the roof finished and the legislature able to meet in the still uncompleted building. These were the years of Reconstruction, and the capitol served as the setting for some of this drama's most exciting scenes. Between 1869 and 1874, the only State legislature in American history with a black majority sat here, attracting attention both in this country and abroad. In 1873, James Shepherd Pike, a leading Republican journalist, used the capitol as the backdrop for his famous book, The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro Government, which made blacks appear as "ignorant dupes, the tools, of Federal power." Although Pike, according to his biographer Robert P. Burden, was "far from dispassionate in his influential report on Reconstruction", his account was accepted at face value because of his prominence. Pike's book also influenced historians, helping reinforce the image of Reconstruction as an era of black domination, corruption, and misrule. In 1935, Henry S. Commager praised its "transparent honesty" and "thorough documentation," and as late as 1947, it was described as the classic work on Reconstruction outrages. The interpretation presented in The Prostrate State is, of course, no longer accepted by most historians.
The state house also witnessed one of the final acts of Reconstruction. In 1876, Wade Hampton and the Democrats conducted their famous "Red Shirt" campaign against Daniel H. Chamberlain and the Republicans in a concerted effort to "redeem" the State. "Both parties engaged in fraud, with some counties reporting more votes than there were registered voters", says historian Alien W. Trelease. The result was that both Hampton and Chamberlain claimed victory, and their respective parties claimed control of the lower house of the legislature. When the General Assembly convened in November 1876, the Democratic members of the lower house withdrew when several of their members' election certificates were not recognized. They then chose William H. Wallace speaker while Republicans elected Edwin W.M. Mackey to the same post. On November 30, the Democratic legislators returned to the capitol and "thus was seen the singular spectacle of two speakers and two Houses conducting deliberations in the same hall." Four days later, because of threatened bloodshed, the Wallace House moved to another meeting place, probably at the urging of Wade Hampton who exerted himself to the utmost to maintain peace. According to scholar Hampton M. Jarrell, if Wade Hampton "had no other claim to greatness, his wise leadership during the five months following the election of 1876 would entitle him to both state and national honor; for during this crisis he maintained peace in an area where, but for him, violence would have erupted." Next, both Chamberlain and Hampton were inaugurated as Governor, and South Carolinians found themselves confronted with the spectacle of dual government. It soon became apparent that Hampton and the Wallace House had the full backing of the white population and that Chamberlain and the Mackey House were tolerated only because of the presence of Federal troops in the state. On April 10, 1877, fulfilling part of the compromise which had allowed his United States Presidential inauguration, Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew these troops, and the following day Hampton and his supporters assumed full control of the government of South Carolina.
Because of the austerity programs of "Redeemers" like Hampton, work on the capitol proceeded slowly. Finally, in 1885, Governor Hugh S. Thompson, a strong advocate of completing the capitol, recalled John Rudolph Niernsee, its original architect, from Baltimore, but he died before he was able to resume the project. From 1888 to 1891 his son, Frank McHenry Niernsee, served as architect, and under his direction much of the interior work was completed. In 1900, Frank Milburn became architect and stirred up a great deal of controversy because he substituted the present dome for the tower which had been envisioned by the elder Niernsee. Because much of Milburn's work was of inferior quality, he was replaced in 1905 by Charles Coker Wilson, who corrected these deficiencies and finished the exterior in 1907. Finally, after 56 years and the expenditure of $3,450,000, the South Carolina State House had been completed. Since 1907 the exterior of the capitol has changed little, while the interior has been modernized. Today, it still serves as the meeting place for the South Carolina General Assembly and contains the Governor's Office, and the Office of the Legislative Council.
For its long, storied history, the South Carolina State House was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 5, 1970 and later determined to be a National Historic Landmark (NHL) on May 11, 1976. All of the information above, and much more, was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration. These documents can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." --Jeremiah 29:11
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Genista germanica (Fabaceae) 116 25
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.
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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
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.
Prostrate Cancer liveried GBRF 66769 eases through Barrow upon Soar hauling the Tinsley Yard to Bardon Hill on April 7th 2025.
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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.
Prostrate Cancer 66769 passes through Croome Perry Wood on 16/Aug/23 with 6V84 07.38 Clitheroe to Avonmouth cement.
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
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:
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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Banksia stenoprion is a prostrate shrub endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has short, underground stems, pinnatisect leaves with triangular lobes. The flowers are golden, mauve or purple flowers in heads of up to ninety.
Photo: Fred
Holy Relic of St. Michael the Archangel, Prince of the Heavenly Host.
Ex Crypta Apparitionis or Piece of Stone from the Cave of Mount Gargano in Italy, where St. Michael the Archangel appeared. The Cave is now a Sanctuary dedicated to the Prince of the Heavenly Host and is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites in Italy and Europe.
Feast Day: September 29
The Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano, sometimes called simply Monte Gargano, is a Catholic sanctuary on Mount Gargano, Italy, part of the commune of Monte Sant'Angelo, in the province of Foggia, northern Apulia.
It is the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the archangel Michael and has been an important pilgrimage site since the middle ages. The historic site and its environs are protected by the Parco Nazionale del Gargano.
The legend of the Archangel's apparition at Gargano is related in the Roman Breviary for May 8, as well as in the Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea), the compendium of Christian mythology compiled by Jacobus de Voragine between 1260-1275.
According to this legend, around the year 490 the Archangel Michael appeared several times to the Bishop of Sipontum near a cave, asking that the cave be dedicated to Christian worship and promising protection of the nearby town of Sipontum from pagan invaders. These were the first apparitions of Michael in Western Europe.
Pope Gelasius I (reigned 492-496) directed that a basilica be erected enclosing the space. The Basilica di San Giovanni in Tumba is the final resting-place of the Lombard king Rothari (died 652); the designation "tumba" is now applied to the cupola on squinches.
To Michael's dramatic later intercession, appearing with flaming sword atop the mountain, in the midst of a storm on the eve of the battle, the Lombards of Sipontum attributed their victory (May 8, 663) over the Greeks loyal to the Byzantine emperor, and so, in commemoration of this victory, the church of Sipontum instituted a special feast honoring the Archangel, on May 8, which then spread throughout the Catholic Church. Since the time of Pius V it has been formalized as Apparitio S. Michaelis although it originally did not commemorate the apparition, but the victory of the barbarian Lombards over the Orthodox Greeks.
The complex of buildings consists of the Battistero di San Giovanni in Tumba, damaged in 1942, and the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The baptistery presents a rectangular storey on which rests an octagon supporting an elliptical section and a high drum that supports the cupola. The church erected in the eleventh century by Archbishop Leone stands upon the remains of an ancient necropolis. A few remnants attest to its once-rich fresco decoration.
The Castello was enlarged by the Normans upon an episcopal residence of Orso, Bishop of Benevento, to provide a suitable seat for the Honor Montis Sancti Angeli, further modified by Frederick II. The massive, octagonal campanile was built in the late 13th century by Frederick II as a watchtower. It was turned into a bell tower by Charles I of Anjou.
Behind a forecourt the sanctuary presents a portico of two Gothic arches, the right one of 1395 by the local architect Simone, the left one a reconstruction of 1865. From the portico steps lead down to the low arched nave. The cavern can be accessed from a Romanesque portal, called the Portale del Toro ("Gate of the Bull"): the doors, in bronze, were made in Constantinople in 1076, the donation of an Amalfitan noble. They are divided in 24 panels portraying episodes of angels from the Old and New Testaments.
The archaic cavern opening to the left, with its holy well, is full of votive offerings, especially the 12th century marble bishop's throne supported on crouching lions. Among the ex voto objects is a statue of the Archangel by Andrea Sansovino.
During centuries, millions of pilgrims went to Monte Sant'Angelo in order to visit the “Celestial Basilica”. Among the pilgrims who visited the Saint Michael Archangel Sanctuary were many popes (Gelasius I, Leo IX, Urban II, Alexander III, Gregory X, Celestine V, John XXIII as Cardinal, John Paul II), saints (Bridget of Sweden, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas) emperors, kings and princes (Louis II of Italy, Otto III, Henry II, Matilda of Tuscany, Charles I of Naples, Ferdinand II of Aragon).
Also Francis of Assisi went to visit the Sanctuary, but feeling himself unworthy to enter the grotto, he stopped in prayer and meditation at the entrance, kissed and carved on a stone the sign of the cross in the form of “T” (tau).
Since 13 July 1996, the pastoral care of Saint Michael Archangel Sanctuary has been given to the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel.
ACT OF CONSECRATION
Oh, most Noble Prince
of the Angelic Hierarchies,
valorous warrior of Almighty God,
and zealous lover of His glory,
terror of the rebellious angels,
and love and delight of all the just,
my beloved Archangel Saint Michael,
desiring to be numbered among your
devoted servants,
I, today offer and consecrate myself to you,
and place myself, my family and all I possess
under your most powerful protection.
I entreat you not to look at how little I,
as your servant have to offer,
being only a wretched sinner,
but to gaze rather with favourable
eye at the heartfelt affection
with which this offering is made,
and remember that it from this day
onward I am under your patronage,
you must during all my life assist me,
and procure for me
the pardon of my many grievous
offences and sins,
the grace to love with all my heart my God,
my dear Saviour Jesus,
and my Sweet Mother Mary,
and obtain for me all the help necessary
to arrive to my crown of glory.
Defend me always
from my spiritual enemies,
particularly in the last moments of my life.
Come then oh glorious Prince
and succour me in my last struggle,
and with your powerful weapon
cast far from me
into the infernal abysses that prevaricator
and proud angel that one day you prostrated
in the celestial battle.
Accompany me then to the throne of God
to sing with you, Archangel Saint Michael
and all the Angels, praise, honour and glory
to the One who reigns for all eternity.
Amen.
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