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The Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid is widely distributed and native to North America.
Usually grows in mesic (moist) areas at the margins of wetlands and requires neutral to alkaline substrates. Flowering occurs in Spring .
Photograph taken: A fen Eastern Ontario, Canada.
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This small to medium sized saprobic fungus fruits in dense clusters during winter on both exotic and indigenous fallen or standing wood. Has a sticky pale yellow to rosy-orange brown cap darker in the centae; with a distinctively velvety stem that darkens from the base upward; without a ring and having attached, close gills.
Common name: Velvet foot; Winter mushroom.
Found: Podocarp Forest
Substrate: Wood
Spore: WhiteHeight: 40 mm
Width: 30 mm
Season: Autumn to early winter
Edible: Yes, commercially cultivated
Silberra U200 Rodinol1+25
I do like this little post box.
U200 is quite nice. Its a really thin substrate but seems to work fine. No problem loading it either in the camera or the spiral. It's tougher than it feels.
A bit desperate for this weeks theme Fountains. Home made Fountain with son making good use of garden sprinkler used to settle substrate of workshop I was building in 1982. Taken with old instamatic camera with tiny negatives and scanned in hence poor quality.
I love the dreamy inner world of this delicious rose flower. It seems to pull me into its starry center as I try to pass it by. I'm captivated by the way the morning light creates translucent pink highlights, the rosy petals and golden connective holes. Here is a close up of the very center. www.flickr.com/photos/jungle_mama/4454252899/
A woody, evergreen shrub with vigorous growth, Allamanda may reach a free-standing height of 6 feet or more. The leathery leaves are lancelike, pointed, and may be opposite or in whorls of three or four. The large trumpet-shaped flowers may be yellow, white, purple, pink or orange. Their scent is delicate and fruity.
In the wild, Allamanda grows along riverbanks and open, sunny areas with adequate rainfall and perpetually moist substrate. The plants do not tolerate shade, salty or alkaline soils; they are highly sensitive to frost. Allamanda are otherwise undemanding and in appropriate conditions will grow rapidly, from 3 to 9 feet annually. The seed capsules are oval and prickly; cultivated forms rarely produce seeds, but Allamanda are easily propagated from cuttings. Discarded cuttings are quick to take root.
Allamanda have become naturalized throughout the tropics; they may be seen in roadside ditches, abandoned yards and dumps. As a controlling measure, cutting is ineffecive with Allamanda and will lead to vigorous coppicing ( reshooting from the stump or roots). Because of its fast growth, Allamanda has been introduced widely as a groundcover, for hedges and screens.
Yellow Allamanda cathartica is notable for its medicinal properties: all parts of the plant contain allamandin, a toxic iridoid lactone. The leaves, roots and flowers may be used in the preparation of a powerful cathartic. The milky sap is also known to possess antibacterial and possibly anticancer properties. Gardeners exposed to the sap will develop rashes, itc, and blisters.
Allamanda is named after Dr. Frederich Allamanda (1735-1803), a Swiss botanist of the late 18th century.
Allamanda Cherries Jubilee, Apocynaceae
(Uratelornis chimaera)
Spiny Forest Ifaty
Madagascar
Unlike other Ground Rollers that inhabit rainforests, this one occurs only in the Spiny Forest in a very limited area around Ifaty. It's no wonder, therefore, that it has the status of Vulnerable!
The Spiny Forest is an unique ecoregion in southern Madagascar, with a nutrient-poor, sandy substrate, and little, unpredictable rainfall. Its vegetation, almost entirely endemic, consists of thorny trees and shrubs, along with some succulents ones, including the famous and stunning baobabs.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Madagascar (2023) (174)
- All the photos for this order CORACIIFORMES (240)
- All the photos for this family Brachypteraciidae (Braquipteraciídeos) (14)
- All the photos for this species Uratelornis chimaera (3)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/11/13 (28)
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The American white ibis is most common in Florida. It is also commonly found in muddy pools, on mudflats and even wet lawns. On land, the American white ibis locates prey by sight and pecks, and does not have to insert its bill into the substrate.
The church is located on an elevated plateau in the middle of the town of Jastrebarsko. The history of the church goes back to the Middle Ages, however, no substrate has been preserved from the oldest layer. The first known major renovation took place in 1757, when the wooden belfry was replaced by a larger masonry one with a baroque cap. In 1788, the construction of the new church was completed. A single-nave hall building is created, supported by a series of Czech vaults, with a slightly narrower sanctuary closed by a narrowed apse. In 1880, the church was seriously damaged in an earthquake, so the need for renovation was used to reshape the facade in the then-current style of historicism. It is a significant monument of the Jastrebarsko region with its design qualities and historical value.
The Hadeda ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) uses a feeding strategy known as probe foraging, inserting its long, curved bill into soft substrates to search for underground prey such as earthworms and insects. This behavior is supported by a specialized sensory adaptation called remote-touch.
At the tip of the bill lies the bill-tip organ, containing tens of thousands of sensory pits embedded in the bone. This structure enables the detection of minute vibrations produced by moving prey, allowing the bird to locate hidden organisms without visual cues.
Experimental studies have shown that the effectiveness of remote-touch is strongly influenced by soil moisture. In wet soils, vibrations transmit more efficiently, significantly increasing prey detection rates. In contrast, dry conditions reduce this ability, forcing the ibis to rely on random probing.
• Hadada / Hadeda ibis
• Ibis hadada
Scientific classification:
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Pelecaniformes
Family:Threskiornithidae
Genus:Bostrychia
Species:B. hagedash
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa
Taken in Spain
Stout shorebird with a bright stubby bill. Note orange legs, often bright on spring adults. Breeding plumage has bold black-and-white head and breast pattern; nonbreeding has subdued and browner pattern. In flight shows bold white wing stripe. Mellow whistled “poo-ee” call quite distinct from call of more slender and ‘spectacled’ Little Ringed Plover. Breeds on sandy and stony substrates from beaches and lakeshores to moorland above treeline. Winters coastally, where often roosts with other small waders such as Dunlin.
The spectacularly bizarre Andean Cock-of-the-rock is perhaps the most popularly recognized bird of the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. The national bird of Peru, this species is readily identified by its fan-shaped crest and brilliant orange plumage, both of which are evident to a lesser degree even in the duller female. Males spend much of their time displaying at leks, where they jump up and down on particular branches and utter low, guttural croaks. The name is derived from their preference for rocks and ledges as substrates for their mud cup nests. Often difficult to detect away from leks, birds can sometimes be found feeding at fruiting trees. Distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia in the Andes, the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock does not co-occur with the similar Guianan Cock-of-the-rock of the Guianan Shield. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/andcot1/cur/introduction
Picture taken at Cusco - Peru, for a Peaceful Travel Tuesday.
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