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Plantago lanceolata


Plantago lanceolata
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Copyright: Nicolas Moulin (nimou) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 148 W: 1 N: 687] (3169)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Kodak DX6490, Raynox DCR250
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-11-15 15:53
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Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Existen numerosas especies de plantago, la mayoría habitan en suelos secos y pisoteados, aunque también algunos ocupan suelos húmedos y encharcados. Se pueden encontrar en pastizales degradados, bordes de camino, cunetas, márgenes de cultivos, campos abandonados, etc., donde se forman densas poblaciones. Son bastante frecuentes en los alrededores de las ciudades.

Datos de la foto: Camara Kodak DX6490 con raynox DCR250 a F8 1/350

Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) is a plant of genus Plantago. It is a common weed of cultivated land.

Rosette forming per herb, leafless, silky, hairy flower stems (10-40cm) leaves all at the base. Lanceolate spreading or erect, scarcely-toothed with 3-5 strong parallel veins narrowed to short stalk. Grouping leaf stalk deeply furrowed, oblong grouping of many small flowers each with a pointed bract. Flowers 4 mm (calyx green, corolla brownish), 4 bent back lobes with brown midribs, long white stamens.
This is a very dark green, slender perennial, growing much taller than Plantago major. Its leaf-blades rarely reach an inch in breadth, are three to five ribbed, gradually narrowed into the petioles, which are often more than a foot long. The flowerstalks are often more than 2 feet long, terminating in cylindrical blunt, dense spikes, 1/2 to 3 or 4 inches long and 1/3 to 1/2 inch thick. It has the same chemical constituents as P. major.

When this Plantain grows amongst the tall grasses of the meadow its leaves are longer, more erect and less harsh, than when we find it by the roadside, or on dry soil. The leaves are often slightly hairy and have at times a silvery appearance from this cause, especially in the roadside specimens. The flower-stalks are longer than the leaves, furrowed and angular and thrown boldly up. The flowerhead varies a good deal in size and form, sometimes being much smaller and more globular than others. The sepals are brown and paper-like in texture and give the head its peculiar rusty look. The corolla is very small and inconspicuous, tubed and having four spreading lobes. The stamens, four in number, are the most noticeable feature, their slender white filaments and pale yellow anthers forming a conspicuous ring around the flower-head.
fyapici, SkyF, wallhalla15, XOTAELE, jchemas, blakitan, Charo has marked this note useful
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Hola Nicolas!
A very nice captured flower. All details look superb and contrast is very nice. Bravo and TFS.
Saludos sinceros
Fevzi

Great macro Nicolas. Excellent composition with very good sharpness and very good details. Very good job. Well done. Thank you for posting.
Gr.
Heinz

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  • hester Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1515 W: 18 N: 3165] (11638)
  • [2006-11-15 16:25]

Very artistic. The simplist shots are sometimes the most beautiful. Lovely POV, sharp details, great lighting and I love the dark BG

TFS

Karan

bonsoir nicolas
une bien jolie palette de couleurs sur ce BG noir.la netteté est super.
bravo.
laurent

Preciosa macro Nicolás. Los detalles son estupendos y el fondo muy adecuado para resaltar el colorido y la nitidez de la flor. Muy bello ejemplar de la naturaleza.
Un saludo, JL.

Hola Nicolas.
Tu foto es una creacion bastante bonita donde se encuentran la luz soble los pequenos petalos the la flor y el fondo obscuro de la planta.
Es bastante elegante y artistica.
Muy buenos los detalles y los colores y magnifica resolucion.
Saludos.
JC

Hi Nicolas,
Nicely composed picture with dark BG. Great DoF, well focused. Nice colors. Nicely framed.

Ben Lakitan

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2233 W: 188 N: 1929] (8127)
  • [2006-11-16 7:37]

Hello Nicolas,
fabulous light and lovely details. This is very well captured. POV, colors and contrasts are wonderful. Excellent sharpness and very well composed.
TFS..Sky

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  • Charo Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 49 W: 0 N: 39] (456)
  • [2007-03-01 19:54]

Hola Nicolas
Preciosa imagen, es una estupenda toma con gran nitidez.
Saludos cordiales
Charo

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