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AKA False lily of the valley, May lily, oravanmarja (fin), metsäoravanmarja (fin).
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Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Canon nFD 50mm F1.4 / APS-C Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
Borage (herb) is the proper name. Our local garden centre, Greens, is selling packages of plants and compost. So I bought a package and this is one of the plants that came with it. If you google this plant then you will see how good it is for lots of things, apparently ;))
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro / 42mm Extension Tube (1.34:1 macro) / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Unedited (Straight from camera).
Spring Starflower | Ipheion uniflorum | Amaryllidaceae
Explored on 30th March 2020 #69
Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8
10mm Macro Tube | 12 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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To ancient Greeks and Romans borage, Borago officinalis, was a potent medicinal herb guaranteeing courage in battle. Now, though, these casually sprawling plants are more grown for their ornamental and culinary value. Their open blue flowers add colour and flavour to summer drinks, while the young leaves are sometimes included in salads.
Borage flowers are particularly attractive to bees – after a bee has visited a flower it refills with nectar within two minutes, making borage a great pollinator-friendly plant for a small garden. (Gardener's world.com)
Tielt-Winge, Belgium.
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Attractive small to medium size shrub, everblooming with bright pinkish-lavender flowers resembling a star. This plant is native to Polynesia.
Florida
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 85mm F1.8 / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
Pottering about in the delightful, small herbal patch of the Deacon's Garden next to the Hermitage, one of Amsterdam's fine museums, this Starflower reminded me of my youth. Hot bruises would be treated with thin slices of cool cucumber, and Borago smells and tastes like that wonderful vegetable. We would be warned to handle the growing fruits of cucumber in our vegetable garden carefully because their own bruising would turn them bitter-tasting. Whether our Grey-spotted Boxer Hoverfly needed bruise solace I don't know. The male - this is the female - has slightly thickened forelegs, hence its common name, elaborated from the Latin. And obviously it's here after Sweetness and not Pollen.
A lovely plant with many little flowers that the bees love !!
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Common names: Borage; starflower.
Botanical name: Borago officinalis.
Family: Boraginaceae.
Taken at Vergelegen wine estate, Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa.
AKA Chickweed-wintergreen, Arctic starflower, Metsätähti (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Darktable.
An attractive female (Eupeodes sp., possibly E. corollae) feeding on a springstrar (Ipheion uniflorum) flower. A widespread European species of hoverflies which are great pollinators, and their larvae feeds on aphids - is good for garden plants too. Taken in the garden. Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
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These Beauties have given consistent colour to my Allotment all summer and are still going strong and looking very healthy, from now on they will be a regular in my garden
This is another favorite woodland flower of mine. They are very small but always seem to stand out on the forest floor making their common name very appropriate for this species.
There is a tiny Springtail at the base of the leaf in the foreground. I put a note on the tiny speck. I thought my friend Eddie the Bugman would enjoy that little fellow. ;^)
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The scientific name for this species is: Trientalis borealis.
Borage growing in someone's garden. There was also some growing in the pavement nearby.
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These delightful and delicate little white stars suspended on a naked stem are a signature spring wildflower in the north woods.
Borage (Borago officinalis), also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales. It grows satisfactorily in gardens in most of Europe such as Denmark, France, Germany, the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic (see below under Phytochemistry).
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Sara orangetip (Anthochatos sara) on Egyptian Starflower (Pentas). Normally ranges from Alaska coast south to Baja California mainly to west of Pacific divide. 2017 Butterfly Jungle at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
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Ipheion uniflorum, spring star flower, 'Wisley Blue', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Unusually early in my Lake Tahoe garden.
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