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... and a blossom of a dwarf pincushion flower / Tauben-Skabiose (Scabiosa columbaria)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a HBW!
A seed head of the weed in the daisy family that I call cobbler's pegs, Bidens pilosa. It has many other common names in English: beggar's tick, beggar-ticks, hairy beggar-ticks, black-jack, broom stick, broom stuff, devil's needles, hairy bidens, Spanish needle, farmers friend and devil's pitchfork as well as many other common names in other languages.
With their tips like barbed arrows, it is little wonder that the seeds stick to clothes. For more information about this plant see here.
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I'm kind of fascinated by these desert spiny lizards. Such cool creatures. I got down on his level to see the world from his point of view. The colors on this guy are that of a male. The females don't get the turquois neck and belly
spiny sow thistle
Rauhe Gänsedistel
[Sonchus asper]
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A Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura sp. conspicuosa & macrolopha ) on the grounds of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson Arizona. This is a hybrid that was introduced to the museum grounds in the 1970s.
Don't be shy.
The spiny seahorse (Hippocampus histrix), also referred to as the thorny seahorse, is a small marine fish in the family Syngnathidae, native to the Indo-Pacific area. It is classified as a Vulnerable species by the IUCN.
The spiny seahorse is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 15–17 cm.
The body is slender, elongated and completely covered with thorns. These are sharp with dark tips, and uniformly sized on the prehensile tail. The trunk has long thorns which continue until the coronet, which has 4–5. The head is also provided with numerous spines especially on the forehead, the base of the cheeks, the nose and above the eyes. The snout is very long and tapered. Body coloration is highly variable to match surroundings and goes from grey to cream, and from bright yellow, to green or red and even brownish. It can be plain or with different pattern on the side or/and on the backside. The snout is generally striped with one or more thin white lines. (Wikipedia) Mabini,
South Luzon, Philippines.
Published in Fishipedia. www.fishipedia.fr/
Datura stramonium (Solanaceae), known by the common names Thorn Apple, Jimsonweed, Devil's Snare, or Devil's Trumpet
TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton, Texas
Dear friends, thank you so much for all your lovely comments and faves in my last photo.
Today I had a really busy day, because I'll have the surgery to my left eye tomorrow, in the afternoon, and I wanted to leave everything in order as I'm going to spend the next two nights at my son's house. Only now I've entered in Flickr, just to explain my absence in your photos today.
I'll be back as soon as the doctor allows it!
Big hug to all of you, I'll see you soon, I hope. Stay well!
Photo taken with my cell phone at Ifaty Spiny Forest, Madagascar
Spiny fruit (Randia echinocarpa) on the grounds of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The plant is endemic to Northwest Mexico. AKA papachi.
Focus stack (45 images) Shot with two off-camera strobes (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted to overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella. Flash B modified with MagMod MagSnoot, partly extended, camera right45 degrees, 30 degrees above subject. White reflector 8 x 10 in) camera left, perpendicular to subject. Mirror (6 x 6 in) camera right, perpendicular to subject to provide slight backlight. Mirror (4 x 6 in) in front of subject to provide fill light on front of subject.
Shot for Smile on Saturday - fruit on white background.
Subjects - front, rambutans (hairy fruits) and rear, kewano (spiny)
My reptile photo inventory is running a little low, but I found this one worth posting. Found this colorful specimen soaking up some rays near in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
A desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona. The species is native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts.
Gulf Fritillary caterpillar munching along the Passionflower vine leaf. We took some Passionflower suckers from the garden in the greenhouse to root them, checked them well for caterpillars and apparently not for eggs. We did not see caterpillars but ended up feeding three of them. The spines are soft but impressive if you don't know that.