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Clematis vitalba
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Copyright: Nikos Nz (avallaunius)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-02-29 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: canon PowerShot G9 |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/20 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-03-04 3:04 |
| Viewed: 567 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Clematis
Species: Clematis vitalba
Also known as Traveller's Joy and Old Man's Beard, this is a hardy climber - a wild Clematis. It has green-white flowers, smelling of vanilla, from June to September, changing to attractive fluffy seedheads. Found naturally in wood margins and hedges. Name comes from the Greek "klema", referring to the young shoots of a vine and their climbing nature.
French beggars used to use Clematis to irritate their skin and produce sores - presumably in the hope of begging more money! Clematis is also known as Poor Man's Friend and Boys Baca - referring to the stems being used as a tobacco substitute. However, all parts of the plant are toxic to a certain degree. Flowers were also used as a substitute for tea.
It provides food for Pug, Chalk Carpet, Lime Speck Pug, Haworth's Pug, Small Emerald, The Fern, Pretty Chalk Carpet, Least Carpet and Small Waved Umber moths, hoverflies and bees. Birds like the seedheads and sometimes use the fluffy seed tails as nesting material, as do small mammals. Dried leaves make a cattle fodder.
The plant has been associated with the Devil and witches because it was thought to choke other plants to death. Conversely it is also associated with the Virgin Mary and God because of its whiteness. In France the long stems used to be woven into baskets and beehives.
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(1191) - [2008-03-04 4:48]
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Hi Nikos!
Very nice, this is old man's beard, see my post, it is the same plant I think. If you look at the crits there you'll find other links to some wonderful posts of it.
I like your composition very much, the dof is very fine and the sharpness is great!
I like the bw version too, but I always like the "almost bw" shots the best! TFS!
Best regards,
Andor
