Australian Gum Trees (GumDrop Awards Group)
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Another pink flower. Red Gums have pink or red flowers.
Endemic to the South-West of Western Australia.
Corymbia.
I am recovering from Covid.
The Emperor Gum Moth belongs to the Saturniidae family and is native to Australia. This species was formerly placed in the genus Antheraea.
This captive bred male emerged from its cocoon on 16.07.2016.
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Sweet Gum - taken at the medical complex parking lot near me, when it was a weekend, no one or car around.
Along the highway - Queensland - Australia.
Texture thanks to Chris Buscaglia.
Master of Photography - Members Choice.
On the track to Fort Rock these gums stood out strongly against the sea of greenery around them.
Taken with the Takumar 200/3.5
GUM - Russia's oldest shopping center In the heart of Moscow, on Red Square, is the oldest and most famous shopping center in Russia.
Gum tree, Lambarene, Gabon
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GUM 15 is an emission nebula in the Vela constellation, around 3000 light years from earth.
Perhaps a somewhat less familiar designation, the GUM catalog contains a total of 85 nebulae. It was put together by astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (and hence named after him).
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Smile on Saturday! :-) In the Style of Hans Heysen
Hans Heysen is one of Australia's best known artists . Most of his paintings are of the Australian bush . He was born in Germany 1877 and died in 1968 . ( We live on Heysen Ave. ) Many of the streets in our area are named after painters .
If one Sweet Gum seed pod stacked image is cool then isolating the pod and duplicating it should be cooler, especially if it's Slider Sunday.
55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro
Happy Slider Sunder - HSS
GUM - Russia's oldest shopping center In the heart of Moscow, on Red Square, is the oldest and most famous shopping center in Russia.
Red sap oozes out of the bark, hence red gum. The ants must have been getting nectar.
I went for a short walk in the bush the red gum had just started flowering but not much else.
A drive up to Mt. Coot-tha was another rewarding experience. The flowering Gums caught my eye straight away ! At 'home' amongst 'fellow' Gums. The beauty of Australia.
It tough work for a tree to grow in a swamp. The vast majority of trees simply can't do it; they'd drown! But bald cypress and tupelo gum trees have mastered the feat of surviving in sodden soils. This is in large part due to their "knees." While there are several theories as to the function of these knobby outgrowths, the prevailing thought is that they allow these water-logged trees to breathe!
The beauty of these eucalypts in the morning sun would have made the entire 13.5 km bushwalk in the Freycinet National Park worthwhile in itself. I felt a genuine thrill when I saw the way the sunlight highlighted the freshly exposed new bark as the older layers had been shed and lie on the forest floor. Nature renewing herself. I'm not a tree hugger, but I could easily hug these beauties.
If you enlarge this shot you'll see the scribbles on the bark from which the trees get their name. The latest scientific information on this was discovered by Australia's premier science agency, CSIRO:
"The ‘scribbles’ on scribbly gums are an icon of the Australian bush, but until recently very little was known about the cause of these distinctive scribbles. A team of CSIRO researchers were the first to uncover the mechanism by which the scribbles are made, along with the biology and lifecycle of the moths responsible. In the process they described eleven new species of moth and redrew how the Ogmograptis species fit into the moth family tree."
csiropedia.csiro.au/scribbly-gum-moths/
If you want to do some further research on these trees I suggest you take a look at this comprehensive guide: www.fpa.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/110419/For...
This was my last night in the lake district. The weather wasn't great, the wind was picking up and the sky was totally grey. I sat in my car debating with myself whether to bother making the walk up. After sitting for 30 minutes or so, I watched the first signs of the cloud cover breaking.
I decided to chance the walk up Gummers How in the hope that the clouds would keep moving and give me something for the sunset.
This was taken about 45 minutes before sunset, the wind had picked up and the gusts were enough to make me unsteady on my feet. For a brief five minutes, there was a touch of colour in the sky which I gladly started snapping away at.
Deciding that the wind was just too strong for a tripod out in the open, I upped the ISO and shot handheld. Luckily i took a few images and this one turned out sharp. I then hunkered down behind a rock out of the wind, waiting in vain for a sunset that never appeared. The 30 minute trek back down to the car was accompanied by strong gusts and driving rain which eased, of course, just as I reached the car.
The view is looking across Windermere towards Lakeside.
The glass-roofed design made the building unique at the time of construction. The roof, the diameter of which is 46 ft (14 m),