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Astrancia Major L


Astrancia Major L
Photo Information
Copyright: Omar Guessab (mano) Silver Star Critiquer [C: 11 W: 0 N: 5] (48)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07-09
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-F828, Sony/Zeiss teleconverter (1,7), SanDisk Ultra II 2GB
Exposure: f/8, 1/200 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Flower(pink)II [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-10-29 10:06
Viewed: 1686
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
Latin Name: Astrantia major L (Word formed at the Average Age of the Latin "aster": "star" because of the spangled involucre)

Common noun: Large Astrance
Popular Names: Sanicle of mountain, Radiate, black Ostrich.
Family of apiacées
Nom commun : Grande Astrance

This mountain species meets on the lawns and in wood lights of the Jura, of the Alps, of the Massif Central and the Pyrenees.
What one takes for a flower is a formed inflorescence of small purplished flowers, surrounded of large bractées white or dew.
The sunshade is of very variable size and color. The sheets are deeply divided into five to seven toothed segments, the exchange, major than the others, reaching the base of the limb almost .

Custom and habits. A root of Astrance unearthed the night of the Jean Saint and placed on the lintel of the cattle shed secured the cattle against the disease and the accidents

Flowering : July at September.
Height : 30 cm with 1 m.
Sunshade diametre : 10 to 30 cm
Altitude : between 500 and 2000m

Photo taken in the Valee Verte in Haute Savoie (France).

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Hi Omar

Short on time to give a well deserved indepth critique, but this is a great shot. Nicely composed with good sharpness and detail. Well done. Thanks.

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