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Banksia Species, Southern Blechnum Banksia (Banksia blechnifolia)
The Southern Blechnum Banksia is typically a dwarf prostrate spreading shrub with horizontal branches and dusky-red flower heads 15-18 cm. The flowers are usually pollinated by ants. A hardy Banksia that is well suited to coastal and embankment planting. Native to the South West of Western Australia.
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.
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”
copyright © Mim Eisenberg/mimbrava studio. All rights reserved.
This is supposed to be a prostrate ground cover, but the few plants i have in one of my raised beds are very leggy. The flowers are only about a half inch wide.
EDIT: I was sold this plant as Lithodora diffusa 'Grace Ward', but upon reconsideration and after considering what Karl Hauser said below, I believe it is indeed a species of flax (Linum), but I don't know which.
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Jokhang Temple ("House of the Lord") in Lhasa is the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism, attracting crowds of prostrating Tibetan pilgrims and curious foreign tourists every year
Prostrate shrub with white flowers. Width: to ca 40 cm. Height: to ca 4 cm. Flowers Oct - Nov.
The fruit or seed cases and seed are shown here. They fall off the plant easily and blow away or are taken by insects as they do not remain near the plants.
Named for it's strawberry plant like leaves.
There are few scattered populations with low numbers of plants. 2 in one up to 129 in another. The populations are monitored to check their health on a regular basis.
Photo: Jean Dec 2012
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. In North America it is found in Alaska, most frequently on previously glaciated terrain, and through the Canadian rockies reaching as far south as Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
It grows in dry localities where snow melts early, on gravel and rocky barrens, forming a distinct heath community on calcareous soils.
As a floral emblem, it is the official territorial flower of the Northwest Territories and the national flower of Iceland (from Wikipedia).
In its Prostrate Cancer livery,66769"League Managers Association" passe Worting Jnct. on 01/June/22 working 4E34 05.27 Southampton to Doncaster I Port intermodal
Have got agreement to come off the hormone treatment for the prostrate cancer. Need to get my life back. Things look good at present so regular blood test to keep an eye on things.
Isopogon is a genus of 35 species of mainly low-growing and prostrate perennial shrubs in the family Proteaceae endemic to Australia. Isopogon dubius, the pincushion coneflower, is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The deep pink flowers occur in winter and spring.
This prostrate, evergreen plant with attractive star-shaped flowers makes for an ideal ground-cover plant in domestic gardens.
As a result of garden escapes it is found in the wild on occasions.
From Wikipedia....and this is just a little info !
"Ragweeds are annual and perennial herbs and shrubs. Species may grow just a few centimeters tall or well exceed four meters in height. The stems are erect, decumbent or prostrate, and many grow from rhizomes. The leaves may be arranged alternately, oppositely, or both. The leaf blades come in many shapes, sometimes divided pinnately or palmately into lobes. The edges are smooth or toothed. Some are hairy, and most are glandular.
Ragweeds are monoecious, most producing inflorescences that contain both staminate and pistillate flowers. Inflorescences are often in the form of a spike or raceme made up mostly of staminate flowers with some pistillate clusters around the base. Staminate flower heads have stamens surrounded by whitish or purplish florets. Pistillate flower heads have fruit-yielding ovules surrounded by many phyllaries and fewer, smaller florets.
The pistillate flowers are wind pollinated,and the fruits develop. They are burs, sometimes adorned with knobs, wings, or spines.
Many Ambrosia species occur in desert and semi-desert areas, and many are ruderal species that grow in disturbed habitat types
Allergy
Ambrosia artemisiifolia pollen
Ragweed pollen is a common allergen. A single plant may produce about a billion grains of pollen per season,[9][10] and the pollen is transported on the wind. It causes about half of all cases of pollen-associated allergic rhinitis in North America, where ragweeds are most abundant and diverse.Common culprits are common ragweed (A. artemisiifolia) and great ragweed (A. trifida).
Ragweed pollen can remain airborne for days and travel great distances, affecting people hundreds of miles away. It can even be carried 300 to 400 miles (640 km) out to sea.[12] Ragweeds native to the Americas have been introduced to Europe starting in the nineteenth century and especially during World War I, and have spread rapidly there since the 1950s.
Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, has been badly affected by ragweed since the early 1990s, when the dismantling of Communist collective agriculture led to large-scale abandonment of agricultural land, and new building projects also resulted in disturbed, un-landscaped acreage.
The major allergenic compound in the pollen has been identified as Amb a 1, a 38 kDa nonglycosylated protein composed of two subunits. It also contains other allergenic components, such as profilin and calcium-binding proteins."
In front of the Jokhang Temple, hundreds of people will gather to pray and prostrate themselves. This woman had moved back from the crowd near a post that was completed covered with prayer flags and had spent the entire day praying. She would pray standing and then move down to the mat and continue laying prostrate.
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.
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: Fred
Dead Leaf Mantis (Deroplatys kinabaluensis), juvenile laying prostrate to increase crypsis. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
Sorry, not a good photo, but it is the first time I have seen Grebes mating. The female first lies prostrate on the ground and the male then "walks" up, does his thing, and then keeps walking forward off the female.
Today crowds of tibetan people are making the Kora from early in the morning until late in the evening. Kora is a kind of meditative walk around stupa, monastries or holy mountains (like the Kailash). The most devotee ones make full body prosternations after every step. Non buddhist visitors (like many nepalis) can walk around with the pilgrims.
The original stupa was built in the sixth century. Badly damaged by 2015 earthquake, it is completely repaired today (2017). Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Boudhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of Kassapa Buddha
White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae) nectaring on Prostrate False Buttonweed (Spermacoce prostrata) - The Ingraham Highway (off Research Road), Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
Focus was right on the button, and the BF too!
This image was captured with 60 megapixels of detail, so feel free to use Flickr's mag 🔎 tool to have a close look at this guy.
This is a prostrate shrub growing to 0.4m flowering Aug - Nov in laterite soils.
The peas have been very special this year. Here are a few.
Photos: Fred
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae and is considered to be the type species for the genus.
(Wiki)
High Mallow is a spreading perennial herb, about 3 ft tall. In wild it can grow taller. Stems are straight or prostrate, branched and covered with fine soft hairs or none at all. The leaves are alternately arranged, deep green, soft, and downy. They are roundish, and have 3-7 shallow lobes, each 2-5 cm across. Leaf stalk is either 2-6 cm or 2-13 cm long. The flowers are large, numerous, and of purple color. They appear in clusters of 2-4 in leaf axils. Sepals are five, petals five, pollen large, whitish. Petals are wrinkly to veined on the backs, more than 1.5-2.3 cm long and 1 cm wide, eggshaped, margin notched with a fringe of hairlike projections. Seeds or 'cheeses' are brown to brownish green when ripe, about 2.5 mm wide, 5-7 mm in diameter and are shaped like a cheese wheel which inspired on of its common names. High Mallow is widespread in Africa, Europe and Asia. Within India it is found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon up to an altitude of 2400 m.
Medicinal uses: [Warning: Unverified information] High Mallow possesses the properties common to mucilaginous herbs, and an infusion thereof forms an excellent demulcent in coughs, irritations of the air-passages, flux, affections of the kidney and bladder, etc. In inflammatory conditions of the external parts, the bruised herb forms an excellent application, making, as it does, a natural emollient cataplasm.
Common name: #HighMallow #Commonmallow
Hindi: #Gurchanti #Socholi
Kannada: #Sannabindigegida #Seemebende
Marathi: #Kubaajee
Urdu #Khubbazi #Tukhm-e-khubbazi #Gul-e-khubazi #गुलेख़ैर
#Gul-e-khair
Botanical name: Malva sylvestris
Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
#sylvestris #Malvaceae #Malvales #Malvasylvestris
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Browneshill Dolmen
(Dolmain Chnoc an Bhrúnaigh)
(Source: 'About Carlow Issue 2 & Carlow County Library)
The Browneshill Dolmen is a portal tomb dating from c.3300 – 2900 B.C. It has a very large granite capstone measuring 4.7 metres x 6.1 metres x 2 metres. The capstone rests on two portal stones, a door stone and a prostrate slab. The dolmen or cromlech is a type of pagan sepulchral monument. The capstone is the largest to be found in Europe. It has been calculated to weigh over 100 tons.
Carlow is probably well renowned worldwide for its pre-historical Dolmen which is situated at Browne's Hill which is approximately 3km east of Carlow town on the Hacketstown Road. This is the county’s most prominent feature which is estimated to be about 5000-years-old. But what is it and who built it?
We do know what is it but we can only speculate on how it was built. The stone age peoples of Ireland honoured their dead in different ways. In addition to Dolmens (also called Cromlechs from the Gaelic ‘Crom’, stone and ‘Lech’, flagstone). The stone age peoples also used Moates, or artificial mounds. Inside these mounds have been found the skeletons or burnt remains in clay burial urns. Cairns corresponding to Moates, except that they consist of stones instead of earth were also used. Kists are box like graves, with the floor, sides and roof made from flagstones and Gallauns, or Longstones. The Gallauns, were sometimes inscribed with Ogham writing, which occurred about the 3rd or 4th century A.D. It may well be that these ancient graves were re-used by later generations of Gaels. The type of grave we are concerned with here is the Dolmen. The sides or uprights of Dolmens consist of large stones or boulders, capped by a large boulder.
In later years these Dolmens were also known as Druid’s Alters and frequently as Leaba Diarmaid agus Grainne, ‘the bed of Dermot and Grainne’, from the well known legend of the elopement of Dermot with the wife of Fionn MacCuil. It was said that Dermot erected one every night for the couple to sleep in while on the run. The Browneshill Dolmen has the largest cap-stone in Europe, estimated at over 120 tons. How primitive man raised these huge stones into position is something we really do not know. There are three popular theories on how they did so. The very fact that they went to such trouble and invested such amounts of labour in the building of them shows clearly that they had leisure time and did not have to spend all their time in hunting and gathering and growing food.
The first theory on their erection is that they did not move the capstone at all. They could have dug holes where the uprights were to go, inserted these and then dug away the surrounding earth, leaving a Dolmen looking like it is today. Secondly, they might have erected the uprights and then used a ramp of earth, stones and timber, upon which they could have levered the capstone into position. The third theory is that they could have levered up one edge of the capstone and crammed in earth and stones, raising it. If they continued this all round the capstone would eventually have risen to the level of the uprights and could then I have been prised into position. Many Dolmen were originally covered with a mound of earth. As there are very many such unexplored mounds in Ireland perhaps there: are many more Dolmens to be discovered. Of course, it goes without saying that ordinary people were not buried in Dolmens. They were reserved to honour those of the highest rank in society, Kings, Chiefs and their families.
Our previous sightings of this plant has been that they grow on laterite ridges so it was interesting to see it growing in the sand.
It is a low sprawling shrub with its flowers extending from the plant and sitting on the ground.
Here you can see open flowers within the head of flowers, also containing closed flowers.
Many of the styles of the flowers had been chewed off and occasionally the petals had their tips chewed as well.
Petals, stamens and styles are visible in this photographs.
Photo: Jean
Today crowds of tibetan people are making the Kora from early in the morning until late in the evening. Kora is a kind of meditative walk around stupa, monastries or holy mountains (like the Kailash). The most devotee ones make full body prosternations after every step. Non buddhist visitors (like many nepalis) can walk around with the pilgrims.
The original stupa was built in the sixth century. Badly damaged by 2015 earthquake, it is completely repaired today (2017). Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Boudhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of Kassapa Buddha
La bocha (Dorycnium pentaphyllum) es una planta de las fabáceas, perteneciente a la familia de las leguminosas.
spends a great deal of his
quality time, usually prostrate
charging his phone,
listening to raucous heavy metal
aka noise
and here on his 3rd
Twisted Tea extreme Lemon
8% ice tea.
hip hip hooray......
9th street 3rd ave
East VIllage
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66769 "Paul Taylor Our Inspiration" with LMA (League Managers Assocaition) nameplate & prostrate cancer brandings - 6T70 (0430 MO STP from Whitemoor, which was formed of Volker Rail crane 81601 plus associated wagons & 10 Salmons loaded with concrete prefab) - Ware (in possession) - 1113 - 11/04/22.
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
[Rahman 55:1] Allah, the Most Gracious
[Rahman 55:2] Has taught the Qur’an to His beloved Prophet (Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him).
[Rahman 55:3] Has created Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him) as the soul of mankind.
[Rahman 55:4] Has taught him the knowledge of the past and the future.
[Rahman 55:5] The sun and the moon are scheduled.
[Rahman 55:6] And the plants and the trees prostrate (for Him).
[Rahman 55:7] And Allah has raised the sky; and He has set the balance.
[Rahman 55:8] In order that you may not corrupt the balance.
[Rahman 55:9] And establish the measures justly, nor decrease the due weight.
[Rahman 55:10] And He appointed the earth for the creatures.
[Rahman 55:11] In which are fruits, and covered dates.
[Rahman 55:12] And grain covered with husk, and fragrant flowers.
[Rahman 55:13] So O men and jinns! Which favour of your Lord will you deny?