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She has great fun looking closely at a weird and wonderful plant called Rafflesia arnoldii. She smells a Rafflesia arnoldii and then she says, “it doesn’t stink like rotting meat like many people think”.
Read about the differences between Rafflesia arnoldii and Titan Arum (Carrion flower) at my blog virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-differences-betwee...
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A rare, parasitic, rootless and leafless plant, Rafflesia arnoldii is the largest flower on Earth. It can attain a diameter of nearly a meter (3 ft) and weigh up to 11 kg (24 lb). The buds of the Rafflesia take many months to develop and the flower stays in bloom up to 14 days. It is an incredibly rare site to see in the wild.
Photographed in Taba Penanjung rainforest, Bengkulu province, Indonesia.
For more info about Rafflesia arnoldii, pls read my post at virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-worlds-largest-flo...
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Created for KP December 2021 contest - Shades of Gray.
(Winner 1st PL) Tied
Weird plant/flower purchased from Dover.
Metal clock, purchased from Fotolia.
Pet Mouse (Inside gray bubble) from my private collection, purchased.
Clock and Flower on hat, purchased from Renderosity.
Bubbles from PNGWing.
All other Steampunk, grunge, illustrations & metal elements etc., purchased from DS.
Cloud brush and frame, mine.
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For the ChatLUG fig on a pl8 contest. Mine's a little rushed. I just found out about this today. Hurray for me. Hope y'all like it.
Taken in Hehuanshan (合歡山), the second highest mountain in Taiwan..
PS: if anyone knows what sort of plant this is, pls. let me know by leaving a comment. Would love to know what it is. Thanks a lot!
It looks like a little bead, but it is alive.
(updated)Thank anna-scott for pointing out what plant it is.
"The Latin name is Hoya carnosa, in german it's a "Porzellanblume" (porcelain flower). " (a direct quote from anna-scott's comment)
It's called a Hindu Rope Plant. I nearly killed it about 8 years ago. And then during one of my many moves, my father ended up adopting it and while it was with him it grew to be about 10 feet long. (It spins around on itself, ends up looking more like a big ol' tangled mess.)
He used to tell me about the flowers and I never got to see them. Recently, he and my mother embarked on a The Great Retirement Tour of 2007 and I got all my plants back including the Hindu Rope Plant.
It bloomed. And it's freaking beautiful. Just goes to show that some of the weirdest/ugliest looking plants produce the most amazing flowers.
Let's hope the same can be said for human babies. ;]
Pretty killer large
These were growing on a tree in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. They were huge. Probably 20 inches across. At first I thought they were some sort of clay birdbaths someone attached to the tree.
Photographed at Bridgemere Garden World. It was growing on a large bush / small tree. No idea what it is, seed pod, fruit, fungal growth??? I swear I have not photoshopped this, it is shown exactly as it is.
This is the flower I was trying to shoot the other day when I got distracted by the ants. If you want to see another view of it (w/ ants!) please visit my photostream. It was so bizarre I had to share.
Just playin' with plants (in the backyard). i loved these trees as a kid but remember always getting bee stingers in my bare feet when i'd walk beneath them. Honeybees love to pollenate bottlebrush and apparently i was stepping on dead bees(?), which is sad because i happen to also love bees.
Pachypodium namaquanum looks quite amusing when it is young, long before it grows into its impressive tree-like form.
Learn more at Top Tropicals:toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/pachypodium_namaquanum.htm
Not very "Vintage Roadside" but our garden is finally awakening for the Spring:-) Arisaema nepenthoides.
Something a little different for our photos:-) Spring is finally arriving here. Here's one of our plants emerging for the year.
I have never in my life seen a plant like this, nor of this color. It's not blue because of the cross-processing, it was really this cyan teal color. I was amazed by this beauty.
Sonya's Garden
Tagaytay, Philippines
Shot with:
Canon EOS Rebel Ti / 300v
18-55mm f/3.5-4.6
Kodak E100GX expired xpro
Found while taking a walk in the woods (southeast Massachusetts). After I snapped this shot, I was fortunate to find many more groupings ... but ultimately unfortunate enough to find my camera battery giving up for the day. Oh well ... there's always another day for another walk in the woods. :))
Naw I'm just kiddin, they are actual plantlife. But unfortunately they are unidentifiable and they haven't got a name.* Fortunately there's nothing like them anyplace else on the internet.
If you yearn to see the "Rio Grande Botanic Garden" but you don't want to pay 7 dollars admission, you can do like I did & walk down Central Avenue & peer thru the garden's perimeter fence.
*—They are "century plants," agaves, in bloom.
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In Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 30th, 2009, on the west side of Central Avenue, north of Tingley Drive.
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Library of Congress classification ideas:
QK73.U6 Botanical gardens—United States—Pictorial works.
QK495.A83 Agaves—Pictorial works.
SB405 Flowers—United States—Pictorial works.
TH9732 Wire fencing—Pictorial works.
TS271 Barbed wire—Pictorial works.
F804.A3 Albuquerque (N.M.)—Pictorial works.
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus term:
• chain link fences