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I just liked the simplicity of this ...no edits.....just added the frame.....Then removed it.....LOL
not so beautiful when the leaf minors got through with it!
Annual cassia, a larval food plant for sulphur butterflies
Haven't taken many pictures recently, so have been raiding my back catalogue(!) to find some which can perhaps be reworked a bit.
This was taken at Basildon House, a National Trust property in Berkshire. Never very good with flora and fauna, it's a maple leaf?
Does anyone out there know what this disease is called?
It seems to strike maple trees around here every year.
Another false leaf katydid, i think its amazing how many varieties of katydids there are in the tropics. Earlier I posted a false leaf katydid that resembled a healthy leaf and then I posted one that looked like a dead leaf and here is one from the middle ground. Resembling an unhealthy yellowing leaf. Really cool camouflage.
Achlys triphylla
John Dean Provincial Park, North Saanich, BC
Vanilla-leaf, also known as "deer foot" and "sweet after death", is a native plant that grows on the shady forest floor. Its flower is a tall spike with tiny white blossoms. When dry the leaves smell like vanilla, hence the alternate name "sweet after death".