View allAll Photos Tagged stems
Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF-S 17-85mm F4-5.6 IS USM @85mm
Texture by Borealnz. Thank you!
Tulip
A tulip is a bulbous plant in the genus Tulipa, comprising 109 species with showy flowers, in the family Liliaceae. The species native range includes southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers.
The species include short low-growing plants to tall upright plants, growing from 10 to 70 centimeters (4–27 in) tall. They can even grow in the cold and snowy winter. Plants typically have 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12 leaves. The cauline foliage is strap-shaped, waxy-coated, usually light to medium green and alternately arranged. The blades are somewhat fleshy and linear to oblong in shape. The large flowers are produced on scapes or subscapose stems normally lacking bracts. The stems have no leaves to a few leaves, with large species having some leaves and smaller species have none. Typically species have one flower per stem but a few species have up to four flowers. The colourful and attractive cup shaped flowers typically have three petals and three sepals, which are most often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. The six petaloid tepals are often marked near the bases with darker markings. The flowers have six basifixed, distinct stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals and the stigmas are districtly 3-lobed. The ovaries are superior with three chambers. The 3 angled fruits are leathery textured capsules, ellipsoid to subglobose in shape, containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds in two rows per locule. The flat, light to dark brown seeds are arranged in two rows per chamber and have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed coat.
Although tulips are associated with The Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire. The tulip, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as it is also called in Iran and Turkey, is a flower indigenous to a vast area encompassing parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and is ultimately derived from the Persian language dulband ("turban").
The Black Tulip is the title of a historical romance by Alexandre Dumas, père (1850), in which the city of Haarlem has a reward for the first grower who can produce a truly black tulip.
One mushroom, amazingly common in southeastern states like North Carolina, that piques the interest of people who find it in their yards, gardens, and other human-maintained green spaces, is the ringless honey mushroom, Armillaria tabescens; a distinguishing feature that aids in identifying it is the consistency of the stem and the top of the mushroom cap: a tough, somewhat hollow stem often with stringy fibrous material stuffed inside, making it hard to break the mushroom apart easily, and it certainly does not snap open like chalk (as in the genus Russula, another common group of wild mushrooms growing in yards and lawns); stems should be white, fibrous, and almost woody, on mature mushrooms grey at the base, and when broken, appear jagged, fibrous, and almost look like a broken stick
_____________________________________________
Charlotte, NC – 2018AUG22 – Ringless Honey Mushroom:
We've had record rainfall lately – the wettest July on record and the 2nd wettest month ever – and just "overnight" these two clusters of edible mushrooms popped in our backyard, Armillaria tabescens, growing with explosive speed, often reach full maturity in a day or two, growing in clusters of multiple individuals arising from the same spot in the ground.
By average rainfall in Charlotte, NC (USA), the wettest month is March: an average 4.4" of rain falls on 11-12 days, though in July rain typically falls on more days, with 3.5" in 12-13 days, the driest month, November: an average of 3.0" in 9-10 days, though in October rain typically falls less days, 3.3" in 7-8 days.
Hope you enjoy the 16% of 49 photos I took here this day!
Flower stems and leaf stems, that all stemmed from the garden, all sitting in a long stemmed wine glass.
A couple of white lights from
below.
Phlomis russeliana
Turkish Sage is a species of flowering plant in the mint family. Originally native to native to Turkey and Syria, now growing happily in Yorkshire. It grows to around 1 metre, or 3 feet 3 inches tall. It is a herbaceous perennial with hairy tall stems. The grey green leaves are arrow shaped, and point downwards. In summer the green buds develop in the leaf axils at intervals up each vertical stem, giving a tiered effect. The buds open into clusters of dull yellow hooded flowers. This specimen is doing a good job of taking over a large section of the memorial garden in Ripponden village centre.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
Orion plants his left, then swings through with his right as he executes a turn while running free at full speed on scent in the forest near my home...
Weather-wise, the day was nice. While January was mostly cloudy and gloomy with drizzle, we've been remarkably snow-free, so far. I'll take it. One good day is one less chance for a bad one. The rest of the week looks more like a typical February, our worst Winter month for cold, snow and ice storms.
All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.
Made with Processing, Lee Byron's Mesh library and ProXML library.
This little program looks for photos on flickr by a given search word. Afterwards, the colors of the photos are analyzed. The color itself gets detected and how often each color is found. This data is the foundation of every stem. Each segment represents one color of the photo, the diameter shows the quantity. The cell resolution in all segments is based on the brightness of the color.
Surely one of the most alien-looking plants on the planet!
This is in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens.
Hero Arts Pop Stems (K5162), adorned with Perfect Pearls and Stickles, sentiment is Inkadinkadoo (Chelsea sentiments)
More on my blog:
fun-stamping.blogspot.com/2013/02/be-our-valentine-pdcc16...
Thanks for looking!
Three rose stems in water in a three sided glass vase. Other stems are reflections.
Shot with Profoto 600 overhead and to camera left. Metered with Sekonic 358 but underexposed by two stops. Image cropped in post.
These hairy stems emanate out of the potted soil and into the air, supporting both leaves and blossoms. I opened up my aperture to a rare f/32 in order to maximize focus depth. Until I saw them through my lens, I had no idea that the stems were so covered in dainty hair!
Illustrations of electrical sparks from Memorie - Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali ser.3:v.1:disp.1 (1877).
Took this yesterday on the way home but too poorly to upload... Love the way the stems are hanging on here - almost looks like a spider
The lilies we have planted in our front yard are now blooming. I'm not very good at realizing when different flowers should be in bloom but it appears that lilies are at their peak right around the summer solstice. Must like it hot.
For more of my creative projects, visit my short stories website: 500ironicstories.com
The Stem of Bacteriophage model: the famous syringe like structure to attach on bacterial cell wall and inject its DNA into bacteria for replication of phage. An artistic piece made of glass to honor the scientist who made the discovery.
Nobel laureate Lecture to celebrate Dr. Sydney Brenner Scientific Voyage at Biopois 2015