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A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition drew inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today.
On view April 3 – 21, 2024
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
Primrose flowers come in two types, 'PIn-eye' and 'Thrum-eye'. This is pin-eye (whatever a 'thrum' is!), with the stigma prominent, and the anthers arranged in a ring deep inside the opening. The stigma therefore protrudes, waiting to receive pollen from a (you guessed it) thrum-eyed visiting insect, which has collected pollen from the upper ring of anthers of the thrum-eye. See thrum-eye in this set.
And vice versa...the pollen from this pin-eye sticks to the tip of the pollinating insect's mouthparts, or head, and will be positioned just right to pollinate the next door thrum-eye flower, with the stigma buried deep. So self-pollination of nearby flowers from the same clump, or clone, is avoided.
At least that is what the books used to say, but it always seemed to me rather crude. What is to stop thrum-eye pollen falling down off the insect into the thrum-eye stigma, for example? And the pin-eye pollen could easily hit the 'pin' as the insect starts to feed.
The answer is that the two types of pollen are chemically prevented from germinating on the same type of stigma. So why the pin/thrum thing which seems unnecessary? Well, this is in fact a device to stop the stigma being clogged up, or blocked, by too much of its own type of pollen, as the majority of the pollen will come from the opposite type, due to its position on the pollinating insect.
Neat, eh?
This huge bumble bee was clinging to my sunflower tonight. I think it cooled off too quickly & the bumble couldn't fly home for the night so he decided to camp out.
Primrose flowers come in two types, 'PIn-eye' and 'Thrum-eye'. This is thrum-eye (whatever a 'thrum' is!), with the anthers arranged in a ring around the central opening. The stigma is deep inside, waiting to receive pollen from a (you guessed it) pin-eyed visiting insect, which has collected pollen from the deep anthers of the pin-eye. See pin eye in this set.
And vice versa...the pollen from this thrum-eye sticks to the base of the pollinating insect's mouthparts, or head, and will be positioned just right to pollinate the next door pin-eye flower, with the stigma sicking out nicely. So self-pollination of nearby flowers from the same clump, or clone, is avoided.
At least that is what the books used to say, but it always seemed to me rather crude. What is to stop thrum-eye pollen falling down off the insect into the thrum-eye stigma, for example? And the pin-eye pollen could easily hit the 'pin' as the insect starts to feed.
The answer is that the two types of pollen are chemically prevented from germinating on the same type of stigma. So why the pin/thrum thing which seems unnecessary? Well, this is in fact a device to stop the stigma being clogged up, or blocked, by too much of its own type of pollen, as the majority of the pollen will come from the opposite type, due to its position on the pollinating insect.
Neat, eh?
Photos with good narratives are popular - this has just joined my 100 club!
This photo appears in the August 16th, 2012 blog post entitled "Squash and Gourds" on twobitguru.com
In our garden, I patiently waited for one of these big ones to fly onto this Hibiscus flower...
Here it came, and there's the photo!
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
218 Spring Street, Catskill, New York
Thomas Cole is generally considered the founder of the "Hudson River School" of American landscape painting in the mid-1800's. The Historic Site preserves his home, his studio, and kitchen garden. While we were there, it also housed an exhibition called "Cross Pollination" which tied together Cole's work, the work of Frederic Church and the Olana State Historic Site on the opposite side of the Hudson River, as well as several works from contemporary artists that were exhibited on site.
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A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition drew inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today.
On view April 3 – 21, 2024
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
Oneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: kberginfo@gmail.com
A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition drew inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today.
On view April 3 – 21, 2024
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition drew inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today.
On view April 3 – 21, 2024
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
A collaborative showcase between FIT and LASALLE College of the Arts, this exhibition drew inspiration from The Museum at FIT’s spring 2023 exhibition ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today.
On view April 3 – 21, 2024
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
Oneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: kberginfo@gmail.com
Oneirotica by Kirsten Berg
from: Berkeley, CA
year: 2023
Oneiros: reflecting that which arises from the deep well of divine dreams
Eros: Archetypal life force, the creative pulse, excitation
Oneirotica : A giant, iridescent mirror-steel orchid draws us in with dazzling magenta, reflective petals, rising like a shrine from the future. As we move beyond the allure of our own reflections, we alight and take our place at an altar, where a book of “Nectar” awaits, offering gifts of reflective questions and answers: What matters? Best insights? What truly stimulates, brings a deeper buzz to our lives? Diving into our well of experience, we draw forth these deeper treasures to savor and share at this cross-pollination station of meaning, abuzz with the creative pulse, fertile with inspiration, to brighten and lighten our path ahead.
Contact: kberginfo@gmail.com