RHS Wisley

29th August 2021

The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. It is found from Venezuela and Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure.

doi.org/10.2173/bow.swbhum1.01

For me one of the most amazing hummingbirds of Ecuador! Taken at the amazing Zuro Loma Reserve.

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For Macro Mondays theme, "Behind Glass". Height of the stem in this image is approximately 2.3 inches

A fishing vessel at Thorup Strand in Denmark

Frost-encrusted broken stems.

Olympus EM1 + Olympus 12-50mm.

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Explore# 327

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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom

from the multiple bloom stem.

Cada tèpal: 25 - 35 mm

Corona cilíndrica: 13-40 mm de diàmetre

CATALÀ

Narcissus pseudonarcissus és una espècie botànica de la família de les amaril·lidàcies. Lliri silvestre, campanetes, campanetes grans, campaneta golafre, ceba dels prats, ceba d'or, fals narcís, fals-narcís, flor d'àngel, grandalla, liró, lirons, maia, narcís, narcís de campaneta, narcís dels prats, nadaletes, tetoneta. És una planta nativa d'Europa central i septentrional on creix en els boscs humits. A la península se'n troben diverses subespècies, com ara prymigenium, etc., que s'estenen als Pirineus i al Cantàbric. És una planta perenne i bulbosa, amb el bulb globular de color blanc al seu interior i negrós a la seva coberta. Les fulles radicals i lineals de color verd fosc, de 35 cm de longitud. La inflorescència més alta que les fulles, és erecta i té en el seu extrem una fragant flor de color groc daurat, acanalada i composta per sis segments aguts. El fruit és una càpsula.

ENGLISH

Narcissus pseudonarcissus (commonly known as wild daffodil or Lent lily) (Welsh: Cennin Pedr) is a perennial flowering plant.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

This species has pale yellow tepals, with a darker central trumpet. The long, narrow leaves are slightly greyish green in colour and rise from the base of the stem. The plant grows from a bulb. The flowers produce seeds, which when germinated, take five to seven years to produce a flowering plant. (Sexual seed reproduction mixes the traits of both parent flowers, so if garden hybrid cultivars are planted close to wild populations of Narcissus pseudonarcissus, there is a danger that the new seedlings, having hybrid vigour, could out-compete the wild plants.

Dandelion macro

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Baby euphorbia plants with attractive red stems, growing in beach sand, on Kangaroo Island.

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.

Stem

360/365 -Around the house - Day 360

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - shelter (tulips sheltering in a vase)

116 in 2016 #62 fill the frame

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Shrooms with long Stems are reaching for the Sunlight.

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

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

Mushrooms in the yard

For Macro Mondays' "Halloween" Theme.

The stem is about 2" (50 mm) long

HMM

And shades of orange

san francisco, california

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: spiral. HMM everyone!

Poison hemlock stems have distinctive purple streaks on the stems, and fernlike foliage.

Young Dotted Stem Bolete

Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling

I was quite taken with this particular zinnia bloom down in the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse garden yesterday.

A really different variety.

Asters can be notoriously hard to identify so I finally did something smart (rare!) and took a picture of the leaves and stem with my phone so I had a better chance of identifying it when I got home. Worked much better than relying on my so-called "memory"! Photographed after a rainy October night in Beaver Creek Valley State Park near Caledonia, Minnesota.

At Audley End Gardens.

Connection - Macro Mondays

The apple is approximately 3" across.

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A mayfly spinner resting on a reed stem before it takes to the wing for its courtship flight.

Taken in Woy Woy, NSW, Australia

#65 Daisy

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Indoor Tulip stem with sunlit accents....Morning Sunlight seeping through the window blinds.

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

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.