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In the harsh, acidic, nutrient-poor soil of a bog, trees are stunted. This dwarf larch is only ~3' (1 m) tall, but might be up to 100 yr old.
A car dwarfed by tall tropical evergreen trees of Coffee plantations in Coorg District in south-western India's Western Ghats.
Since Coffee plants need shade, the Coffee plantation/estate owners prefer to retain old growth trees. This helps harbor many wildlife species like birds, snakes and insects. Pic taken on Madikeri - Somwarpete Road, Coorg District, Karnataka state.
About Western Ghats:
Western Ghats, or Sahayadris as they are known in many Indian languages, are a 1600 km long chain of mountains that run parallel to the Arabian Sea in peninsular India. They give birth to almost all the major rivers of south India. These rivers provide drinking and irrigation water for more than 250 million people. The 'Ghats' are one of earth's designated 25 Bio-diversity 'Hot Spots'. They are home to some of earth's rarest flora and fauna and most spectacular landscapes. To know more, please visit www.westernghats.info
Zwerglgarten, or "Dwarf Garden". The Mirabell Gardens at Archbishop Wolf Dietrich's 17th century Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg, Austria
Picea "Omorika" Nana from Iseli Nursery in Oregon. Simply perfect in every detail. It sits at the end of my Japanese Dry Creek. I'm guessing it is about 20 years old and has been in our garden about 15 years. Every garden should have one.
I'm always amazed by the variability of this species. These were all within 100 feet of each other in Richmond County, NC.
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Chamaecrista pumila
kam-ay-KRIS-ta -- from the Greek chamai (dwarf) and crista (crest)
POO-mil-uh -- small, dwarf
commonly known as: dwarf cassia • Hindi: सरमल sarmal • Kannada: ನೆಲ ತಗಚೆ nela tagache • Marathi: सरमल sarmal • Telugu: నల్ల జీలుగు nalla jilugu
Native of: s China, India, Pakistan, Indo-China, Malesia, n & n-e Australia
References: Flowers of India • Flora of Pakistan • ENVIS - FRLHT • NPGS / GRIN
Goblobber - Dwarf Onager. Found this little beauty hiding at the bottom of a box, in need of painted. It's amazing what you find in the deep depths of old Warhammer stuff
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy. Look for a loose grouping of stars near the center (extending towards either edge of the image).
Original caption: It's one of the closest galaxies to Earth, but the Carina Dwarf Galaxy is so dim and diffuse that astronomers only discovered it in the 1970s. A companion galaxy of the Milky Way, this ball of stars shares features with both globular star clusters and much larger galaxies. Astronomers believe that dwarf spheroidal galaxies like the Carina Dwarf are very common in the Universe, but they are extremely difficult to observe. Their faintness and low star density mean that it is easy to simply see right through them. In this image, the Carina Dwarf appears as many faint stars scattered across most of the central part of the picture. It is hard to tell apart stars from the dwarf galaxy, foreground stars within the Milky Way and even faraway galaxies that poke through the gaps: the Carina Dwarf is a master of cosmic camouflage. The Carina Dwarfâs stars show an unusual spread of ages. They appear to have formed in a series of bursts, with quiet periods lasting several billion years in between them. It lies around 300 000 light-years from Earth, which places it further away than the Magellanic Clouds (the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way), but significantly closer to us than the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy. So, despite being small for a galaxy, its proximity to Earth means that the Carina Dwarf appears quite large in the sky, just under half the size of the full Moon â albeit very much fainter. This makes it fit comfortably within the field of view of ESOâs Wide Field Imager, an instrument designed for making observations of large parts of the sky. Although this image in itself is not so striking, it is likely the best image of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy to date. The image was made using observations from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla, and from the Victor M. Blanco 4-metre telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
A Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) coming up for air in the Channel between Negros and Cebu island off Bais city, Negros, Philippines
Dwarf Lousewort (Pedicularis semibarbata). Crane Flat area. Yosemite National Park. Mariposa Co., Calif.
I enjoy going for a walk in the local forests and playing with the off camera flash and small softbox and trying to create good images of some of the local plants. I know it's not a story telling image, but I find it enjoyable to get better at this type of photography. I was down on my stomach with a close-up filter on my 50mm lens with the flash on a very lowered tripod, trying to get low angled light to bring out the textures and veins on the plant. I took a number of pictures, then misted the plant with water, thus the beads of water in this image. I underexposed the picture a lot, then used the flash to light the plant and thus have the background dark. A polaroid filter might help deal with the reflections. A future purchase perhaps. I later cloned out bright distracting branches.
f13 1/125 ISO 200 SB800 at about 1/4 power behind a 10 inch softbox
I thought this was the variety 'tete-a-tete' but there was a different name on the label.............I threw it away sadly!
I think it might have been called "JUMBLIE"
Flower on a dwarf Rhododendron- think this must be my favourite Rhododendron bloom.
Focus stacked from 5 pics
Now fully out, and in the last of the direct sunshine before lunchtime, a small group of Dwarf Iris looks stunning.