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'Colchicum autumnale' in my garden - they are doing very well this year.
In English they are known as 'Autumn crocus', which is misleading, as they are not related to crocuses, but they do flower in autumn. The large leaves appear in spring but the purple flowers in autumn, so they are also called 'Naked ladies' (in several languages) and 'Naked boys'. Another name is 'Meadow saffron', but watch out: these beauties are poisonous!
Two young boys look toward the lake at the edge of the water. One is a nudist boy. He squats and only his back and the side are shown. This beach is not a nudist beach, and he was the only nudist I saw on that day. The other boy is wearing a tee shirt and pants and is sitting on the log separating the sandy beach and the water.
Colchicum autumnale (commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron, naked boys or naked ladies) is a toxic autumn-blooming flowering plant that resembles the true crocuses, but is a member of the plant family Colchicaceae, unlike the true crocuses, which belong to the family Iridaceae. It is called "naked boys/ladies" because the flowers emerge from the ground long before the leaves appear.
It is poisonous, and can cause burning of the mouth and throat, vomiting, diarrhea, liver and kidney problems, blood disorders, nerve problems, shock, organ failure, and death!
Naked Lady or Naked Boys is another common name for this amazingly lilac Spring Meadow Saffron. The name 'saffron' which stand actually for the orange color of the pistils of Crocus sativus is here not used descriptively but in the way of botanical nomenclature. The epithet 'naked' is because these pretty flowers spring forth nakedly from the still cold ground before their green leaves can shelter them.
I was happy to see a couple of patches of Colchicum bulbocodium in a nicely bright Spring Sun as I was ambling through the largest botanical garden of Germany. It was founded in 1809 as one of the ventures of the new University at Berlin, later to become the Humboldt-Universität (see the photo I posted yesterday). It's a truly amazing place, meticulously kept and sign-posted. With a bit of exaggeration it might be said that almost every blade of grass is precisely labeled! And the Botanical Museum is also fine indeed.
Colchicum autumnale, also known as meadow saffron, autumn crocus, fog crocus, meadow crocus, Michaelmas crocus, naked boys,naked ladies, purple crocus, upstart.
Colchicum plants are deadly poisonous due to their colchicine content and have been mistaken by foragers for ramsons, which they vaguely resemble. The symptoms of colchicine poisoning are similar to those of arsenic, and no antidote is known.
The poisonous arum maculatum has many names. You may know it as lords and ladies, cuckoo-pint, arum lily, snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, devils and angels, cows and bulls, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast.
At Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.
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Fritillaria meleagris, snake's head fritillary, Schachblume, Fritillaire pintade
De kievitsbloem (Fritillaria meleagris) is een plant uit de leliefamilie (Liliaceae). De bloem heeft paars (soms wit) geblokte bloemblaadjes. Het plantje heeft een tere stengel met smalle blaadjes, die een aantal maanden na de bloei afsterft. De planten doen er acht jaar over om in bloei te komen. De zaden zijn relatief groot en verspreiden zich drijvend op het water. De plant is voor de verspreiding van de zaden dan ook afhankelijk van overstromingen en een hoge waterstand in de winter.
Planda ilbhliantúil le duilleoga snasta dúghlasa, ar chruth rinn saighde, is caora scarlóideacha nimhiúla.
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Pidyn y gog, Gleann Maghair
Planhigyn bythol â dail gloyw gwyrdd tywyll, â brychau duon, ac ar ffurf pen saeth. Mae'r aeron ysgarlad yn wenwynig.
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Cukoo pint, Glanmire
Perennial plant with glossy arrow-head shaped, dark green, black-speckled, leaves. Its scarlet berries are poisonous.
Once upon a time in April last year... Didn't have a chance to shoot much outdoor this year. Wild Arum (Scientific name: Arum maculatum). Brown's Folly, Avon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, Bathford, near Bath, Somerset, England
On the grounds of Tokushima Castle in Tokushima Central Park you can see the Children's Peace Memorial Statue. The base was build from small stones and pebbles collected by the local children. The 16th century castle is a ruin dating back to the Meiji Restoration (1868) when ~2,000 castles were destroyed as they were viewed as symbols of the previous ruling elite. Shikoku Island, Japan.
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I received this AMAZING stenciled canvas from NKDBY today! 18"x24" of serious canvas goodness!! Thank you NKDBY!!
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(Arum maculatum). I've been watching these steadily growing at Wylam for several weeks, the warm weather of the last few days has finally seen them start to flower.
Famous pissing boy at Godiva Belgian chocolate store at Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen. Manneken Pis (little pee man in Flemish) is a Belgian icon created by Jerome Duquesnoy. The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) or Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen (Dutch) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under an arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework.
Arum maculatum. 13 May 2021. Horsenden Hill, Ealing, London, England, UK.
Its common names include Cuckoo Pint and Lords and Ladies. The plant has begun to flower.
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A portrait in prospective with bright and intense colors. Oil painting on canvas, primed with PVA glue and gesso.