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Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 50 cm tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include grevillea, spider flower, silky oak and toothbrush plant. The brightly coloured, petal-less flowers consist of a calyx tube that splits into 4 lobes with long styles. They are good bird-attracting plants, honeyeaters in particular are common visitors. Grevillea flowers were a traditional favourite among Aborigines for their sweet nectar. This could be shaken onto the hand to enjoy, or into a coolamon with a little water to make a sweet drink. They might be referred to as the original 'bush lollies'. 25382
The last sighting of this loco in Blackburn for me was July 2018. It was then in standard GBRf livery and working the very same train. This was earlier today and running about 1 hour late 66769 now named 'League Managers Association' and wearing the logo for Prostrate Cancer is seen leaving Blackburn. With it's usual mixed rake of JPAs and PCAs the ensemble head South working 6V84 Clitheroe-Avonmouth loaded cement train.
Darwinia plants have been an interest of ours so it was nice to see another new one for us.
The red flowering plant is sprawling and prostrate. The flowers sit flat on the ground in rocky laterite areas. You can see white sand grains in between the flowers.
Photo: Jean
An easy care groundcovering Banksia, growing to just under a metre high and 2 metres wide. With large yellow flowers borne for most of the year- from summer through to winter-they are bird attracting and make good cut flowers. Suits seaside gardens, looks great when mass planted. Drought and frost tolerant once established.
P. tortandrum is a small geophyte with pale yellow flowers and simple, seldom trifoliolate prostrate leaves.
Prostrate or decumbent shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec or Jan. Lateritic gravelly soils, shallow soils over granite.
Pinguicula alpina (Lentibulariaceae) 168 19
Pinguicula alpina, also known as the alpine butterwort, is a species of carnivorous plant native to high latitudes and altitudes throughout Eurasia. It is one of the most widespread Pinguicula species, being found in mountainous regions from Iceland to the Himalayas. Native to cold climates, it is a temperate species, forming prostrate rosettes of green to red leaves and white flowers in the summer and a tight hibernaculum during a period of winter dormancy in the winter. Like all members of the genus, P. alpina uses mucilaginous glands covering the surface of its summer leaves to attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey.
From Wikipedia.
Sometimes called 'Cherry Candles' this Banksia is a cultivar from prostrate and creeping native Australian species with similar leaves and flowers. It is a popular 'native plant' in domestic and public gardens and and parks. Flowers are about 160mm and the planted clumped to 300mm tall. Image captured in my Gold Coast hinterland home garden on a bright but cloudy day.
"And unto Allah falleth prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morning and the evening hours". Qur'an 13:15
the set Faith
Grevillea lanigera è un arbusto sempreverde originario dell’Australia; il fogliame, è simile a quello del rosmarino, le foglie sono piccole, lineari, aghiformi, appuntite, di colore verde scuro, lucide e cuoiose; l’arbusto ha sviluppo compatto e densamente ramificato, nel complesso ricorda una piccola conifera. Tra la fine dell’inverno e l’inizio della primavera all’apice dei rami sbocciano particolari fiori, riuniti in racemi, di colore rosso o rosa, spesso con macchie color crema; sono privi di petali, e costituiti da un singolo calice allungato.
This picture was taken in the Cathedral gardens of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
I have no idea what these people were doing, maybe in a trance or a meditation class, but whatever it was it certainly appears to be a peaceful experience.
An easy care groundcovering Banksia, growing to just under a metre high and 2 metres wide. With large yellow flowers borne for most of the year- from summer through to winter-they are bird attracting and make good cut flowers. Suits seaside gardens, looks great when mass planted. Drought and frost tolerant once established.
P. githagineum is a geophyte with a dense mass of simple prostrate, pilose leaves and very small white flowers. The flowers have only four fertile stamens with long, protruding, wine-red filaments. The specific epithet 'gilhagineum' refers to the greenish red colour of the scape, peduncles and the hypanthia.
From Echo Peaks. Northern part of Yosemite in the background. The pines are nearly prostrate on this ridge, where the wind and snow batter any exposed portions. The wind was strong on this particular day and flattened the branches a bit.
Button Creeper Fruit
"Prostrate annual or biennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.6 m high, to 1.5 m wide. Fl. yellow-brown/brown-red, Jun to Dec. Sand over limestone. Sandplains, coastal limestone ridges & outcrops."
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The wiry stems can trip you if you don't watch out.
Native to Western Australia
Prostrate decumbent shrub to 18 cm high, c. 10 stamens on one side of two villous carpels, staminodes on both sides of carpels. Flowers yellow.
ok i know it is dead.
I had to poke it with my finger to confirm.
On a mint plant in a pot on the patio
IRIDESCENT… GERANIUM
More from our garden.
The Cranesbill is really the TRUE Geranium, what we too often call Geranium is the Pelargonium, with flower heads and not hardy like these here.
The name "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the seed-heads, which have the same shape as the bill of a crane.
Also known as Hardy Geranium, Rozanne Cranesbill, Blood Red Cranesbill
Large blue blooms with darker veining are held in clusters above the foliage, giving the plant in bloom an airy appearance.
It has a thick rhizome(A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstock).
The stems are prostrate to ascending, well developed, very branched and hairy as are the buds.
.An enormous variety, often very fragrant leaves, gives you a clue that it is a medicinal plant.
Geranium plants could hold the key to a new generation of HIV treatments, research suggests.
Extracts of the geranium plant Pelargonium sidoides inactivate HIV-1 and prevent the virus invading human cells.
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Bush Pomegranate
In Western Australia we have two plants that produce flowers that look very much like a Pomegranate flower. They are generally prostrate plants that flower in September.
Portulaca grandiflora is commonly called moss rose, which is quite descriptive of this plant's key ornamental features: ruffled, rose-like flowers (to 1” diameter) appearing on prostrate to slightly ascending stems that form a moss-like foliage mat.
Bush Pomegranate
In Western Australia we have two plants that produce flowers that look very much like a Pomegranate flower. They are generally prostrate plants that flower in September.
Brins Mesa, Sedona
The Fall late afternoon sun created shadows on this rock outcrop creating the illusion of a prostrate dog.
Prostrate speedwell
Veronica prostrata
Lecsepült veronika
Industar 26m 50mm 2.8
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This amazing shrub, known as Creeping Banksia, is prostrate, with horizontal branches which spread below the surface of the soil. It is endemic to the coastal regions of south west Western Australia, from Albany to Esperance.
Short-leaved Frankenia
A prostrate shrub to 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: Jean
Series of 10 photos
The Red Meat Ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) love the sweet exudations of these Mealy Bugs and protect them from predators.
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.
Arrives at the remote goods loop at Blea Moor in a snow storm to enable it to run around its train of stone hoppers which had just been loaded at Arcow wearing its Newish "Prostrate Cancer UK" livery.
“Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,”
Statue of Ramses ll Prostrating Himself
Schist
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19
Egyptian Museum JE 38585
Stela with Priest Carrying the Barque of the
Deified Ramses ii in a Festive Procession
Limestone
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19
Egyptian Museum JE 8774
As leader, soldier and father
to his millions of subjects, it
was the pharaoh’s duty to build
temples dedicated to the gods.
Only he, or priest acting on
his behalf, could communicate
directly with the gods.
Ramses offers a “rebus” a collection of
images that form a word or phrase when
spoken aloud.* The statues, representing
Amun, Re-Horakhty, and a child, can be
read as “Ramses beloved Amun”
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.
This prostrate tree looks dead but every year it bursts into leaf just to prove it is still hanging on. If I remember I'll try to capture it with new spring leaves too..
This was a prostrate shrub with many of the flowers sitting on the ground. It was hard to imagine what pollinates these flowers.
I had to hold the flower up to see the style and anthers inside the calyx.
Photo: Jean
I was trying to set up for a photo in the beautiful Mazatlan Cathedral, being as reverent as possible, when this man came forward and placed himself on the stairs to the altar in humble prayer. A touching scene. I wondered about his story.
Summer Honeypot
The prostrate Banksia was flowering well after having been burnt in 2018. The plants have lignotuber roots that remain in the ground after a fire, allowing the the plant to regrow quickly.
This is a threatened plant.
Photo: Jean
Sporting a new 'Prostrate Cancer UK' livery modification to the standard GBRf colours and with two nameplates each side, 'Paul Taylor - our Inspiration' and 'LMA League Manager's Association', the shiny class 66 leads the second leg of Day 1 of the GBRf Charity Railtour 'This Time It's Personal'. On a seriously gloomy day, thanks to the persistent anti-cyclonic cloud, the tour has recovered 15 minutes but is still 20 late after being held at Forest Gate Junction while Network Rail gave their reasons why the tour couldn't reverse in Bow Goods Yard as booked but rather would have to do so in platform 10a at Stratford.
Prostrate decumbent plant with 5 pink petals shading to white and then yellow in the centre, 10 stamens and 3 styles. Height ca 10 cm. Yellow, reflective, glistening jelly-like substance surrounds lower part of ovary and lower end of stamens.
Fl. pink, Sep to Nov or Jan. Sand.
Photo: Jean 2004
“(Allah) said, ‘What prevented thee from prostrating when I commanded thee?’ (Iblis or Satan) said, ‘I am better than him. Thou hast created me from fire, whilst Thou hast created him (Adam) from clay.’”
- The Quran: Surah Al-A'raf (The Heights) – 12.
The scene set for this verse in the seventh Surah of The Quran is immediately after the creation of Adam. All the angels obeyed Allah and prostrated themselves before his human creation, except for Iblis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iblis).
In The Study Quran (Harper) edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, it has this to say:
“(Iblis argues) that he was created from fire, which he perceives as a more powerful and nobler substance than clay…(But) although fire may be luminous, subtle, and characterized by levity and lightness, it is also associated with fickleness, recklessness, and destructiveness – with grandeur, but also haughtiness, qualities consistent with the arrogance that ultimately leads to Iblis’s perdition.” (p.410).
* Notice how all those negative facets of fire fit the spirit of the people who inspired the attack a few days ago on Salman Rushdie. True Muslims, like Rumi and those who understand spiritual things, will know that the fundamentalists who attack Rushdie do not represent God, but Satan (fickleness, recklessness, destructiveness and haughtiness). But that’s true of ALL fundamentalists (even secular ones). Rumi would have agreed with John the Apostle’s statement, “God is LOVE and those who live in love, live in God and God lives in them.” (1 John 4:16). It is obvious then that those who do NOT LOVE know NOTHING of God - whatever their theology!
Salam, shalom, pax in terra, peace to all.
* 25 single photographs taken at one minute intervals with the Leica D-Lux 7.
“Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,”
Statue of Ramses ll Prostrating Himself
Schist
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19
Egyptian Museum JE 38585
Stela with Priest Carrying the Barque of the
Deified Ramses ii in a Festive Procession
Limestone
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19
Egyptian Museum JE 8774
As leader, soldier and father
to his millions of subjects, it
was the pharaoh’s duty to build
temples dedicated to the gods.
Only he, or priest acting on
his behalf, could communicate
directly with the gods.
Ramses offers a “rebus” a collection of
images that form a word or phrase when
spoken aloud.* The statues, representing
Amun, Re-Horakhty, and a child, can be
read as “Ramses beloved Amun”