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In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". -Wikipedia
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Bladder galls info-https://www.spring-green.com/blog-leaf-bladder-galls/
This fruit specimen of the Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi, Solanaceae) was shot in my "studio" set up on my kitchen counter for shallow depth of field to produce soft bokeh bubbles. The fruit was from a plant growing on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Although the small, orange berry inside the papery husk is edible, it is not esteemed as food compared to most of the American derived Physalis species including the tamatillo (Physalis philadelphica) and the many smaller ground cherries such as the Cape gooseberry, the aguaymanto (Spanish), and camapu (Portuguese). P. alkekengi is the only Physalis species native to Asia where it is naturally distributed from Central Asia to Japan. It has been introduced in the Americas where it is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and Canada.
NOTE: The geotag is for the location of where the fruit was collected.
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This delecate plant is almost indistinguishable from the normal bladder silene and belongs to the zinc flora.
The plant has evolved trough cell adjustment, in such a way that it is insenstive to zinc and other heavy metals.
The stores zinc acts as a toxic weapon so that herbivores avoid this.
Because it hardly has any natural enemies, this plant can grow to be 50 years. This plant only grows in the southern part of the Netherlands on the waste mountains of the former Belgium zinc mines.
We finally have frost. I love to watch the progression of these lanterns from green to orange to porous where the red seed appears.
In 2017 we planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry, groundcherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Now we have many new volunteer plants in addition to those we planted. Another fun photo to take advantage of this morning's frost, with camera, tripod splayed, and coffee. And reading no news!
On Bladder Campion
This is a dorsal shot, but I can't help but see a scowling anthropomorphic face on the back of the head. To me it looks like some malevolent, mythological, fairy dragonfly queen.
To make matters worse, I see Richard Nixon's face where the "nose" is. Karma for "Tricky Dick"?.
Please tell me I am not crazy :)
Elk Island National Park. Strathcona County Alberta.
Gomphocarpus physocarpus, commonly known as balloonplant, balloon cotton-bush, bishop's balls or swan plant, is a species of milkweed. The plant is native to southeast Africa, but it has been widely naturalized. It is often used as an ornamental plant. The name "balloonplant" is an allusion to the swelling bladder-like follicles which are full of seeds.
This was captured at Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is situated about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka and attracts 2 million visitors annually It is renowned for its collection of a variety of orchids. It includes more than 4000 species of plants, including of orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees. Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture. [Robert Heath Lock] was the Assistant Director of the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, in Sri Lanka, around 1910.
A chinese lantern fruit after the winter. The berry inside is still there, but the skin went off. These fruits are really photogenic in every condition. :-D
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A pair of Bladder Campion aka: Catchfly (Silene vulgaris) flowers. This is another Southern European native that has been introduced in Canada. A 3-image, handheld stack.
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Photo taken at the The Bergianska trädgården (the Bergian Garden), a botanical garden located on the outskirts of Stockholm.
Hibiscus trionum is an annual plant native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. It has spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. It has been introduced to the United States as an ornamental where it has become naturalized as a weed of cropland and vacant land, particularly on disturbed ground.
Silene latifolia subsp. alba (formerly Melandrium album), the white campion is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40–80 centimetres tall. It is also known in the US as bladder campion but should not be confused with Silene vulgaris, which is more generally called bladder campion.
Дрёма бе́лая, также смолёвка белая (лат. Siléne latifólia) — травянистое двудомное растение рода Смолёвка семейства Гвоздичные, произрастающее в большинстве стран Европы, западной Азии и Северной Африки. Одно- или двулетнее (иногда многолетнее) растение высотой 40—80 см.
Silene vulgaris, the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus Silene of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Common blue on a midsummer evening at Aston Clinton Ragpits.
I was trying to show how tiny these little butterflies are. The smallest is the Small Blue, but I love the pattern on the wings and the striped antennae of this one
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On my early morning walks along a few kilometres of an abandoned road that used to be home to residential dwellings, long since decayed and vanished, I was able to watch the growth and maturation of a number of native and non-native wildflowers. Bladder Campion, a non-native import from Europe, grows wild almost everywhere in the Ottawa region. It is especially lovely in the early morning light, embedded in other wild grasses, and despite its odd anatomical organization, it is very popular with pollinating insects - especially bumblebees. It is also popular in Mediterranean cooking.
I find photography very challenging, learning both how to use the camera and how to use the world, as it were, in the sense of using light, depth, figure and form, and colour. And no one of those is separable. This spring, wildflowers became a way for me to work out some things, especially as their relatively static presence makes controlling for some of the other factors more realistic and less urgent.
Ban Ban Springs, Queensland, Australia
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One of the Italian names for what I call Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris, formerly and more evocatively Silene inflata). Intrigued to hear it can be used as a herb or in a risotto (perhaps a bit like Nettle, which I love), and not fancying it from anywhere I've ever seen it grow, this came from seed... Fox cubs kept digging it up so not enough survived for a risotto and I never fancied it as a herb... but I'm so fond of the flowers that I haven't the heart to pull it out and it is now an unlikely companion for a Tomato...
A close-up shot of a type of bladder campion (Silene vulgaris), with inflated calyces. The shallow depth of field effectively blurs the background, making the unique bell-shaped flowers and their delicate pink stamens stand out beautifully.
Bladder campion is a common wildflower found growing around the UK in meadows, grasslands and fields, and along hedgerows and roadside verges. It gets its common name from the bladder-like calyx (a bulge made-up of the fused sepals) just behind the flowers; it is in bloom from May to September.
Inner Farne Island, Northumberland
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There are quite a few common names for this pretty Saxifrage. One is 'Mossy Saxifrage' and another 'Eve's Cushon'. In both cases you might well imagine a soft seat in the woods. It's Winter now and you wouldn't want to sit on this frosty green. But it's quite pretty catching a ray of sunshine.
Often you'll find an incorrect derivation of that name. 'Saxifraga' does not denote that our plant by the power of its natural growth 'breaks' rocks and stones to create a bed or seat for itself. Rather down through history medicinal folklore has it that drinking a boiled concoction of its roots will break up bladder - or kidney stones.
I found these little jewels next to a footpath on the Canary Island of La Gomera in spring 2013.
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum is a prostrate succulent plant native to Africa, Sinai and southern Europe. The plant is covered with large, glistening bladder cells or water vesicles, reflected in its common names of common ice plant, crystalline ice plant or ice plant.
Dying bladder cherry, chines lantern (Physalis alkekengi) /
Absterbende Lampionblume, Judaskirsche.
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