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Spindle fruits always catch your attention due to their bright color.
From a frosty morning autumn walk from last year
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (almost all shots with this lens taken with aperture at 2.0)
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Plenty of berries on the Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) this year. Primrose Hill Community Woodland. Bath, BANES, England, UK.
A plastic broken spindle from the Sleeping Beauty miniature toys. Just practicing something new for me, not a fan!
Macro Mondays (Motion Blur)
(Image is less than 3" including the negative space)
Burning bush
Huso con alas
Flügel-Spindelstrauch
Burning bush is a species of flowering plant native to central and northern China, Japan, and Korea. The common name "burning bush" comes from the bright red fall color. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to its bright pink or orange fruit and attractive fall color. This plant is regarded as an invasive species of woodlands in eastern North America.
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
New Jersey, USA
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Euonymus
Last autumn the spindle tree planted in memory of Clare caught a blight and despite our ministrations all its beautiful pink/orange clashing berries withered and dropped early. It has stood all winter, skeleton-like, as expected in our front garden. We thought it would not survive.
This week I was delighted to find it has sprouted the tiniest of green leaf buds, difficult to shoot. So here is the evidence, heavily cropped and similarly overprocessed for:
Sliders Sunday -- Post Processed To The MAX!
My Circle Collection for the Macro Monday Challenge on 4/19/2021
If I were guessing, this could have come from river rock along the Mississippi River. I believe it came in a bag of river rock recently purchased. This could be a crude spindle whorl used for weaving. My guess is that it was made by the indigenous inhabitants in the area or Early American settlers.
Do you see notches in both the inner circle and outer circle? This could be to control the flow of the thread or yarn.
Soon these will open to show bright orange berries.
Spindle timber is creamy white, hard and dense. In the past it was used to make ‘spindles’ for spinning and holding wool (hence its name), as well as skewers, toothpicks, pegs and knitting needles.
The fruits were baked and powdered, and used to treat head lice, or mange in cattle. Both the leaves and fruit are toxic to humans – the berries have a laxative effect.
Today spindle timber is used to make high-quality charcoal, for artists. Cultivated forms of the tree are also grown in gardens for autumn colour.
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Found these in the cafe garden. Poisonous to humans though no to birds! A sunny Friday here. Have a good day!
Small, colourful and very poisonous. The common name of the plant originates from the use of its hard wood for making wool-spinning spindles. HMM!
- another tree planted in memory of Clare, thinking of the bright pink and orange berries it will bear in the autumn
for Macro Mondays: symmetry
many thanks for all visits
Happy New Week!
The Garden had a remarkable spring. Flowers everywhere! Some trees and bushes blooming way ahead of shedule. But now, the drought and several "heat waves" (there have been much worse than 90°) have seemingly taken their toll. The "dry garden" is living up to its name. But while it was in bloom, it was a photographer's paradise. Five eucalyptus trees were in bloom at the same time, and became prime real estate for hummingbirds whose nests mimicked the cups (flic.kr/p/2nb9NTC) from which the flowers became seeds which became fruit or something like that.
From February through June, I was photographing the gums, early blooming cactus and succulents, and for the first time in 12 years, took more than 20 photos of Anna's Hummingbirds.
The gum trees were resplendent in purple, yellow, white, and even green flowers. That shouldn't be a surprise with over 700 species of eucalyptus (I'm using "gum" as the generic term, because I have to pause when typing eucalyptus). However, the gum's flower that I'm showing you today was the most difficult to capture. Tucked - along with the hummer's nests - a foot inside the foliage with dappled light, I found the flowers and did my best to present these remarkable blossoms.
Up to 20 feet tall, Eucalyptus albopurpurea, commonly known as the purple-flowered mallee box or Port Lincoln mallee, is a mallee or sometimes a tree that is endemic to South Australia. It has loose, fibrous grey-brown bark on the lower park of the trunk and smooth grey bark that is shed in strips on its upper parts. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flower buds are spindle-shaped to club-shaped and the flowers are white, pink, mauve or purple. Flowering can occur in most months and the fruit are cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsules.
Originally from sandy, ocean climate of Kangaroo Island and the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula, it's doing extremely well here although this is the first year I've seen flowers.
Small red fruits which I've seen in the forest. I very like them, 'cos they looks like flowers and they are very decorative :)
Spindle, European spindle, common spindle (Euonymus europaeus) is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. The capsular fruit ripens in autumn, and is red to purple or pink in colour and approximately 1–1.5 cm wide. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to its bright pink or purple fruits and attractive autumn colouring. The fruit of spindle is poisonous, containing, amongst other substances, the alkaloids theobromine and caffeine, as well as an extremely bitter terpene. Ingestion can result in liver and kidney damage and even death.
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Czerwone owocki widziane w lesie. Bardzo je lubię, bo z daleka wyglądają niczym kwiatki i są takie dekoracyjne :)
Trzmielina pospolita, trzmielina zwyczajna (Euonymus europaeus) – gatunek krzewu należący do rodziny dławiszowatych (Celastraceae). Występuje w Europie i Azji, w Polsce jest dość pospolity na całym obszarze. Owocem jest czterograniasta jaskraworóżowa torebka, zawierająca 4 białe nasiona w pomarańczowej osnówce. Utrzymują się na krzewie jeszcze długo po opadnięciu liści. Występuje w lasach i zaroślach na całym niżu i w niższych położeniach górskich. Czasami jest też uprawiana jako roślina ozdobna. Wszystkie części rośliny, ale przede wszystkim owoce są trujące i zawierają glikozydy: ewobiozyd, ewomonozyd i ewonozyd. Za śmiertelną dla dorosłego człowieka dawkę uważa się 35 owoców.