Mushroom Anatomy 101
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Nature's having its way in our Garden. We decided to let it run wild and there's been a grand succession of a variety of wild flowers. Now above the lowly wild geraniums wave the long and gracious stems of Fake Dandelion, Hypochaeris radicata. Its bright yellow flowers attract lots of insects.
Here's Merodon equestris, Narcissus Bulb Fly, speckled with pollen, eating its fill. A couple of years ago I posted our Fly foraging on a Daisy (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/27412307710/in/photoli...).
Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles are an adaptation that protects the plant from being eaten by herbivores. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape similar to a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle's flowerheads. The comparative amount of spininess varies dramatically by species. For example, Cirsium heterophyllum has minimal spininess while Cirsium spinosissimum is the opposite. Typically, species adapted to dry environments have greater spininess. The term thistle is sometimes taken to mean precisely those plants in the tribe Cardueae (synonym: Cynareae), especially the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. However, plants outside this tribe are sometimes called thistles, and when this is done, "thistles" would form a polyphyletic group. A thistle is the floral emblem of Scotland and Lorraine, as well as the emblem of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Biennial thistles are particularly noteworthy for their high wildlife value, producing such things as copious floral resources for pollinators, nourishing seeds for birds like the goldfinch, foliage for butterfly larvae, and down for the lining of birds' nests. 12710
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For Judy.. Just because:)
After reading all the good things you guys wrote about my work over the month of march I am truly touched.. thank you so much my beautiful friends.. I wouldn't have done anything without your constant support and inspiration:)
HGGT to you all
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A close-up view of the same sunset, shooting straight into the sun through the wild flora along the ridge. Simple, minimal, and completely backlit by that final burst of fiery orange.
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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom
from the multiple bloom stem.
California State University Fullerton
I have been thinking lately that I need to take some wider angle photos and it is difficult when I enjoy the world close up and macro. My next goal should be wide lens work of people and places.
When the weather turns cooler and the Dogwood Kousa berries change to red I know right where I can find Tug. He has made eating the berries a new Art form. Sometimes he jumps up and plucks off the one he wants. Other times he just picks them up off the ground. Fortunately they can been eaten by both dogs and people.
The tree is right outside our backdoor and he seems to think the berries were placed there just for him. While I don’t mind him eating some we all know Tug doesn’t have much ability to control himself. He would stand there all day if I let him and eat every single berry.
This year has been an unusually good year for berries. There are hundreds of them out there. I go out quite often and clean them up to try and prevent overindulgence on his part. The other day I went out with my camera and took some photos as he gorged himself on the yummy treats he seems to find irresistible.
So here is a collage of The Many Faces of Tug continuing a Fall tradition at our house. You’ll notice that he doesn’t eat the stems. Maybe he’s smarter than I thought!
Boletus edulis (Boletaceae) 179 23
Boletus edulis (English: Penny bun, Porcino, Porcini, Cep) is a common mushroom that grows mainly on forest soils. Its main season begins in May and ends in November.
Boletus edulis is very edible. The mushroom tastes mild and mushroom-like.
Boletus edulis commonly measures from 3 to 25 cm. The cap is shaped hemispherical. The fruit body is bleaching. The stem is brittle, fibrous, and knobbly. The stem surface is web-like.
The cap of Boletus edulis is frequently colored brown, gray, orange, and white. The color of the flesh is often white. The gills of Boletus edulis are regularly colored green, white, and yellow. The stem is often colored brown, orange, and white. The spore dust is frequently colored brown.
With all these Vampire Hunters around these days, I tried to remember when I've last seen any vampires. That's centuries ago, I think around 1815 with all the unrest and the Congress of Vienna going on. But since? No, not really.
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For Macro Monday's "chains" theme. That necklace has been made by my wife, ages ago, even before we were together, and that's 40 years by now. The chain links consist of a small ring, a stem with a glass bead, and another ring, which connects to the next link.
If you remember that grand piano on the left, you've been following me for ages, I think I've last shown that in 2017 (together with this nice lady)
Toy Project Day 3956
They may look like normal size leaves, but these are miniature Oak leaves growing off of that single little stem that has broken out from the trunk of the tree.
This tree is in my landscape and these triplet beauties caught my eye as I was cutting the grass yesterday.
In the house I went, grabbed my macro lens, and captured them from several angles. Here is the result.
What is it about autumn leaves that are so beautiful?!
It is in late autumn when the leaves are on the ground that you notice the character of the leaf. The veins and stem have always been there but are not as noticeable in the summer when the leaf is green and still connected to the tree.
Stems of the Stipa shrub growing on the edge of the pinery within the Kuneevsky forest area in Togliatti
There are so many of these plants, that I have to post a closeup with the previous image. I have four more views, but I'll save them for another day.
In the interim, more aboit Leucospermom, Pom Pom / Pincushion flowers. Leucospermum species mostly have seated, simple, mostly leathery, often softly hairy leaves, set in a spiral, with entire margins or more often, with 3–17 blunt teeth with thickened, bony tips, and without stipules at their foot. The flowers are organised with many together in heads with bracts on the under- or outside.
Most pincushions are upright shrubs or even small trees of 1–5 m (3.3–16.4 ft) high, that usually have a single main stem. Some species however only have trailing branches and can form low mats, 1–5 m (3.3–16.4 ft) in diameter. Yet another set of species grow several stems directly from a rootstock in the ground. This is an important character in distinguishing between some species.
Common Blue female -
Thank you to this little flying jewel box for staying while I steadied a swaying grass stem
Quince flowers, Cydonia oblonga, is a species of shrubs or small trees of the Rosaceae family. Its fruits are quinces also called golden apples or Cydonia pears.
Close-up of pale blue common flax flowers among delicate green stems and buds. The photo was taken on a spring day in a Dutch field. Only the foreground is in focus.
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The ice crystals formed at the base of stems of Frostweed, Verbesina virginica (Asteraceae) have been given many names - among them: ice ribbons, ice flowers, ice fringes, ice fingers, ice filaments, ice leaves, frost flowers, frost ribbons, frost freaks, frost beards, frost castles (Forrest M. Mims III www.forrestmims.org/gallery.html), crystallofolia (coined by Bob Harms at The University of Texas), rabbit ice and rabbit butter. It is the sap that crystalizes in freezing conditions that we experience now in Texas.
Here in the TWU Butterfly Garden, Denton campus
for Macro Mondays. Compared with the large bowl, the long stems on my posh wine glasses seem very slender and fragile, and I always take great care when handling them.
The five other glasses are reflected in this one stem.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Cabbage Stem Weevil [Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus]
COLEOPTERA > Curculionoidea (Weevils) >
Curculionidae (True Weevils) > Ceutorhynchinae
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This minuscule Ceutorhynch (Seed) Weevil was no more than 3mm long and proved to be one of the most difficult insects that I've tried photographing. Looking at it in this shot you get no idea how small they are!