The Fascinating World of Fungi.
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Ghost (or corpse) plant, Monotropa uniflora, is a parasitic plant that contains no chlorophyll so it can't generate energy from sunlight. It is a mycoheterotroph, and so is the host of certain species of mycorrhizal fungi.
Sumakh ("vinegar tree")
This small tree or tall shrub has an exotic appearance and looks attractive all year round. Most representatives of the Sumac genus grow in warmer climates and the only representative that has acclimatized in the middle zone is the deer-horned sumac (Rhus typhina).
Why autumn leaves are so diverse and differ in many shades, not everyone knows. Most of the year, pigments are masked by a large amount of green chlorophyll. But in autumn, due to a decrease in the length of daylight hours and a decrease in temperature, active metabolic processes in the leaves stop, nutrients move from the foliage to the branches, trunk and root system, chlorophyll breaks down. Pigments of yellow and orange become visible, which gives the leaves their autumn splendor.
Unfortunately, we cannot independently influence the brightness of the color of the leaves, and in gloomy rainy weather sometimes we are left without a golden autumn parade. The only thing that can be done is to plant plants with decorative fall foliage in the sunniest places, since in partial shade the bright color may not appear or be less intense.
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- Pourquoi les feuilles changent-elles de couleurs ?
La couleur verte des feuilles est due à la présence de chlorophylle. Mais pourquoi ces feuilles se parent-elles d'autres couleurs à l'automne ? Dans les cellules des feuilles, il y a des chloroplastes qui contiennent la chlorophylle ainsi que d'autres pigments. Avec l'arrivée des conditions automnales, les feuilles ne reçoivent plus de sève, la chlorophylle se dégrade, laissant les autres pigments contenus dans les chloroplastes s'exprimer: les xanthophylles jaunes( dérivé du carotène), les anthocyanes qui vont du bleu au violet, des caroténoïdes orangés et rouges. Selon l'importance de tel ou tel pigment, propre à chaque espèce, on peut admirer des combinaisons de couleurs allant du jaune d'or au pourpre en passant des tonalités orangées. Parmi les colorations les plus tonnantes, citons: Parrotia persica , de l'Aralia elata, des Liquidambars, Amélanchiers, Fusains, de certains Cornouillers et des Viornes.
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Fall brilliance decorates the trees in Beamer Memorial Conservation Area on the escarpment near Grimsby, Ontario
The Rafflesia arnoldii is a very rare and a unique plant producing no leaves, stems or roots and it does not even have chlorophyll. Due to its rarity, the Rafflesia arnoldii is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Read more about this exotic world's largest flower at my blog virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-worlds-largest-flo...
Photographed in Taba Penanjung, Bengkulu province - Indonesia.
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Die Vogel-Nestwurz ist ein sogenannter Vollschmarotzer (Holoparasit). Sie ist fast ohne Chlorophyll, und auch ihre Spaltöffnungen sind spärlich und funktionslos. Die Pflanze benötigt bis zur Blühreife etwa neun Jahre. Nach der Blüte zerfällt das Rhizom oft von der Mitte her, und es entwickeln sich von randständigen Wurzeln ausgehende Tochterpflanzen, die dann nach einigen Jahren zur Blühreife gelangen. Wurzelhaare fehlen, stattdessen versorgt der Pilz die Pflanze vollständig mit Wasser, Nährsalzen und Assimilaten; es liegt also eine Myko-Heterotrophie vor. Die äußeren Schichten der Wurzelrinde besitzen Pilzhyphen im Zellinneren, es handelt sich also um eine endotrophe Mykorrhiza des Orchideen-Typs; in den weiter innen gelegenen Schichten werden die Pilzhyphen verdaut. Die Pflanze ist also kein Saprophyt sondern sie parasitiert auf dem Pilz.
Unfortunately this year I did not get to capture the fall colors at their peak but it has been anything but normal for so many, I should just be grateful for what was presented to me and be glad that the world is still spinning.
Have you ever wondered why the leaves change color every year, well to be exact they do not change color they lose color to be precise specifically the color green.
Starting in Spring leaves enter the picture as food factories for the tree, chlorophyll the chemical that that gives a leaf its green color soaks up solar radiation and converts carbon dioxide and water into carbs namely sugar and starch to feed the tree.
The colors you see in the fall foliage are present Spring/Summer the oranges, reds and yellows are just masked by the green chlorophyll, when the days get shorter the trees stop producing food and the chlorophyll breaks down revealing the other colors in the leaves, at least until they fall off.
I took this on Oct 03, 2020 with my D850 and Tamron 15-30mm Lens at 26mm 0.8 sec f/11 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
Cistanche is a worldwide genus of holoparasitic desert plants in the family Orobanchaceae. They lack chlorophyll and obtain nutrients and water from the host plants whose roots they parasitize. (Wikipedia)
Merzouga, Morocco. March 2019.
Kalanchoe 'Pink Butterflies' is a unique, pink plant that is a fun oddity and a must-have in any succulent collection.
What makes it so special? This phenomenal plant is a variegated sport, meaning it's low on chlorophyll. Without green chlorophyll, astounding, bright pink pigments can shine through.
It is a variegated form of the cross K. delagoensis x K. daigremontiana, also known as K. x houghtonii. It grows tall stems and long, slender leaves. These "Mother of Thousands" plants grow hundreds of new plantlets or "bulbils" along their leaf edges. Each plantlet can fall off and propagate, re-rooting into a whole new plant!
For 'Pink Butterflies', it is these small plantlets that show variegation. With their tiny leaves and pink pigments, they truly resemble a kaleidoscope of butterflies (that's the official term!).
Pink Butterflies certainly isn't one of the easiest succulents to grow. The butterflies themselves are fragile, finicky growers.
The other one:
Thanks to chlorophyll, the leaves convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars that travel through the interior of the branches and roots to feed the tree. When the chlorophyll disappears (autumn and winter) the orange, red and yellow pigments appear.
Gracias a la clorofila, las hojas convierten la luz solar, el dióxido de carbono y el agua en azúcares que viajan por el interior de las ramas y raíces para alimentar al árbol. Cuando la clorofila desaparece (otoño e invierno) los pigmentos naranja, rojo y amarillo aparecen.
Thanks to Rafaela’ for the title :-)
Processed with several Flypapers namely Leaden Hall, Leaky Garret and Chlorophyll from the first two packs, and #21 and 3 from the new edges pack, though these were just used for their textures rather than the edges.
This was actually taken in my basement, but you'd never know -the background is my very special light diffuser...a cobweb covered window :-)
Wishing you a wonderful week.
Yesterday an expert on Forestry and Nature conservation told on TV that the autumn colours in leaves were there all along. That the plants actually extracts the green chlorophyll from the leaves in autumn. I always thought that the leaves just changed its colours. These leaves on a Prunus tree demonstrate this process (to me) beautifully. It just shows that one is never too old to learn something.
Frozen in Ice
Preserves these Leaves
From Paradise
Until next Spring
The Leaves are frosted
Without their Chlorophyll
Being exhausted
Finally, when Spring is here
New fresh Green will appear
And the Ice can disappear ...
(Caren)
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Joli nom pour ce lieu-dit : Cougourdane ! Entre Nulle-part et Pas-Grand-Chose, une ancienne ferme isolée ; un beau jardin en pente échelonne ses arbres fruitiers et masque ses plantations potagères sous un épais paillage. Mais contournant les bâtiments, on constate vite qu'ils ont été aménagés afin de recevoir des vacanciers aisés, piscine couverte et constructions restaurées, un grand "parking visiteurs", tapissé d'herbe sèche ; je pose mon sac près de la borne marquant l'accès à la propriété, laisse aussi mes bâtons et avance, la gourde à la main. Les maillots de bain frais mouillés me regardent venir, je leur renvoie leur bonjour et demande de l'eau fraîche, qu'ils m'accordent volontiers. La gourde pleine, je leur demande s'ils connaissent le chemin de randonnée qui passe un peu plus bas, mais m'aperçois vite que la topographie des environs n'est pas leur première préoccupation.
Je les salue, les remercie et continue, pour rejoindre le sentier en contrebas. Pour y arriver, des bois et une pente raide jusqu'au croiser du chemin où je trouve les marques jaunes du parcours que je souhaitais suivre. Prochaine étape Verdillon (la photo).
Le nom de ce hameau promet ombrages et chlorophylle, et marchant d'un bon pas je supporte sans broncher le soleil qui dessèche à ma gauche les champs de céréales dont l'éteule brille comme plaques de feu ; je bénéficie ensuite d'un peu d'ombre en traversant un bois et débouche en vue de Verdillon : sur la croupe d'une petite colline se dessinent ces quelques bâtiments dans l'isolement le plus total, entourés de vastes étendues moissonnées dont les chaumes brillent à contre-jour, flamboient, brûlent sans flammes. Et le chemin s'élève jusqu'à ce four perché, une ligne droite au milieu du jaune des pailles. Pas de vie semble-t-il, à l'exception d'une massive silhouette qui paraît m'attendre à l'entrée de la cour, dans une immobilité impressionnante...
Rien ne bouge, le forme étrange reste impassible, indifférente, comme morte, une statue en guise de balise pour annoncer l'entrée du port. De plus près elle me semble bien épaisse, bien corpulente pour un gardien de phare ; puis je reconnais le fût d'un arbre abattu, un arbre qui devait être magnifique, gigantesque, fort en ombrage, un toit près des toits de la ferme, une grotte verte à ciel ouvert.
Mais aujourd'hui dressé sur les deux mètres qui en restaient, dérisoire, il n'était plus qu'une masse de bois sans vie. Et sans descendance : il n'y a plus guère de vert ici, le paysage s'ouvre au sud sur une vaste étendue qui laisse paraître au loin la ruine du château en ruine de Sigoyer sur son perchoir rocheux.
Ici, personne.
Contournant le bâtiment principal, je distingue une arche assez jolie qui permet d'entrer dans la cour. Silence et immobilité. Si je ne suivais un sentier de randonnée, je me dirais que tout le monde s'est caché en me voyant approcher, car on semble à Verdillon plonger au temps des voleurs de grand chemin...
Prochaine étape, La Cabusse, au-delà des bois. Mais j'y suis déjà passé, l'an dernier.
Coleus leaves often have areas with no chlorophyll. Other pigments, often red ones, can show through. In this photo, there are a couple of spots that seem to have no pigment at all.
Thank you for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
But as autumn approaches, certain influences both inside and outside the plant cause the chlorophylls to be replaced at a slower rate than they are being used up. During this period, with the total supply of chlorophylls gradually dwindling, the "masking" effect slowly fades away. Then other pigments that have been present (along with the chlorophylls) in the cells all during the leaf's life begin to show through. These are carotenoids they give us colorations of yellow, brown, orange, and the many hues in between.
The reds, the purples, and their blended combinations that decorate autumn foliage come from another group of pigments in the cells called anthocyanins. These pigments are not present in the leaf throughout the growing season as are the carotenoids. They develop in late summer in the sap of the cells of the leaf, and this development is the result of complex interactions of many influences - both inside-and outside the plant. Their formation depends on the breakdown of sugars in the presence of bright light as the level of a certain chemical (phosphate) in the leaf is reduced.
But in the fall, phosphate, along with the other chemicals and nutrients, moves out of the leaf into the stem of the plant. When this happens, the sugar-breakdown process changes, leading to the production of anthocyanin pigments. The brighter the light during this period, the greater the production of anthocyanins and the more brilliant the resulting color display that we see. When the days of autumn are bright and cool, and the nights are chilly but not freezing, the brightest colorations usually develop.
Ceiba speciosa is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. Sometimes reaches more than 25 m (82 ft) in height. Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third. The trunk is also studded with thick, sharp conical prickles which deter wild animals from climbing the trees. In younger trees, the trunk is green due to its high chlorophyll content, which makes it capable of performing photosynthesis when leaves are absent; with age it turns to gray.
A lettuce is a cosmos inhabited by tiny beings. This snail will not measure more than 3 mm and it glides on the edge of a leaf like a surfer in an ocean of chlorophyll.
Quasi tutto riprende a funzionare se stacchi la spina per qualche minuto.....per qualche ora...per qualche giorno.....;-)
Dates from 1700-1725 and was moved to the museum to make way for Bewl water reservoir.
The yard behind Tindall Cottage is used to grow flax. The seeds used are a heritage variety known as Maryland which produces the long stems needed for linen production. The seeds are planted in spring once the frosts have finished. The flax is harvested approximately 100 days later once the flowers stop forming each day, this is when the stems are at their strongest. The crop is gently pulled out of the ground as the roots are very close to the surface. The flax is then tied up into bundles known as stooks to allow the chlorophyll to die off and the stems turn yellow. The dried stooks are then soaked with water until the inner plith starts to loosen against the outside stem fibres. The crop is then dried once more and then it is ready to be used and processed into linen.
At the table in front of the house there is a demonstration of how to process flax. You can volunteer to have a go at it. Flax has been replaced by cotton and newer synthetic materials over the ages.
Our trees have noticed the shorter days and are pulling in the chlorophyll now. Seen on a walk today in our area. Hope you are staying well!
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For this "Still Life" composition I used natural Geranium branches affected by plant albinism, that I found at one place in my neighborhood. Plants with albinism occur when they don't produce chlorophyll. Emergent albino plant seedings will have a distinct white color without any hint of green pigment.
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Fern Creek Trail, Muir Woods (Mt. Tamalpais)
Mt. Tam is the largest mountain in the Bay Area, standing tall over the Pacific Ocean with incredible views. But the forests surrounding it, including the famous John Muir Woods, are a tangle of trails moving through gorgeous redwoods, creeks, fallen logs.
This is a shot of one formerly great redwood, fallen when its roots got loose in a storm probably. Over time, its roots were overtaken by forest moss. At first I didn't think I'd be able to capture it in the dull valley light, but then a few rays poked through just as we were saying goodbye to it, and this one sort of worked out.
Over on Mastodon, there’s a trend where people post images of moss and add hashtag #mosstodon. Not sure that will work here :)
... shot from my kayak.
Germany. A hot July summerday on the Neckar river nearby Reutlingen-Mittelstadt. Infrared shot just from my kayak trying to catch the reflections in this idyllic scene.
Nikon D40. Lens 18.0-55.0mm f/3.5-5.6. ISO 200. f/10. 18mm. 1/200 sec. Using an infrared filter 720nm.
If you are interested in an image of the disassembled Nikon D40 for infrared conversion ... here it is --> Nikon D40 Infrared Conversion.
According to Wikipedia Gymnocalycium mihanovichii is a species of cactus from South America. The most popular cultivars are varied mutants which completely lack chlorophyll, exposing the red, orange, or yellow pigmentation. These mutant strains are often grafted onto the hylocereus cactus, and the combined plant is called a "Moon Cactus".
Moon cacti are commonly grown as houseplants and are also known as Ruby Ball, Red Cap, Red Hibotan, or Hibotan cacti.
This pretty little Indian pipe plant is one of my favorite late-summer/fall wildflowers to find out in rich forest habitats. Since these plants contain no chlorophyll, they rely on nearby fungi for their fuel source - tapping into a mushroom mycelium and stealing small amounts of food. This particular Indian pipe was almost certainly associating with golden chanterelle mushrooms that themselves are attached to giant bur oak trees in a symbotic relationship. I enjoyed feasting on a few of those golden chanterelles too.
Chlorophyll-colored lens flare under clear skies at 9000ft reminds me that Kermit the Frog and Shakyamuni were right—everything is connected. 65mmffeq
8 Dec 2022; 00:20; iPhone. 311;54;7
Explore 9 Dec no104
"Menschen, die nie Dunkelheit gespürt haben, werden sich niemals nach dem Licht umsehen"...
"People. who have never felt darknes, will never look for the lihgt"...
This beautiful plant lives in the African desert buried in sand with the transparent tops exposed to the sun . The light goes inside the liquid filled leaves through these "windows" and interacts with the chlorophyll inside. This design allows the plant to retain moisture in its harsh environment.
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Coleus scutellarioides, commonly known as coleus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to southeast Asia through to Australia. Typically growing to 60–75 cm (24–30 in) tall and wide, it is a bushy, woody-based evergreen perennial, widely grown for the highly decorative variegated leaves found in cultivated varieties
Red, purple, pink, and orange colors are due to anthocyanins – water-soluble, flavonoid biosynthetic pigments, found in the foliage in addition to chlorophyll. The increase in anthocyanin production is accompanied by a decrease in chlorophyll production. The production of anthocyanins and chlorophyll is affected by light levels; the more light is present, the more anthocyanins are produced, with an inverse relationship to the production of chlorophyll.