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Copyright: Mattias Regnell (MattiasR)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-05-17 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Canon Powershot G5 |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/1000 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-06-09 13:01 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Hello everyone! Here is a macroshot I took af a dandelion clock. Its a very funny flower to thake pictures of because of all the details.
Some facts (from Wikipedia):
Dandelion (Taraxacum) is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are tap-rooted biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere of the Old World. Over 250 species have been recorded in the British Isles alone. Some botanists take a much narrower viewpoint, and only accept a total of about 60 species.
The flowers are 5-25 cm long, simple and basal, entire or lobed, forming a rosette above the central taproot. As the leaves grow outward they push down the surrounding vegetation, such as grass in a lawn, killing the vegetation by cutting off the sunlight. A bright yellow flower head (which is open in the daytime but closes at night) is borne singly on a hollow stem (scape) which rises 4-30 cm above the leaves and exudes a milky sap (latex) when broken.
An interesting fact about dandelion flowers is that in the polyploid plants they are useless vestigial structures. They reproduce without fertilization, a process called apomixis, while the diploid plants develop the seeds after pollination.
The flower matures into a globe of fine filaments that are usually distributed by wind, carrying away the seed-containing achenes. This globe is called the "dandelion clock", and blowing it apart is a popular pastime for children. The number of blows required to completely rid the clock of its seeds is deemed to be the time of day.
The name dandelion is a derivation of the Old French, dent-de-lion, literally "lion's tooth" on account of the sharply lobed leaves of the plant. In modern French the plant is called pissenlit, "urinate in bed", referring to its diuretic properties. Likewise, "pissabeds" is an English folkname for this plant, "piscialletto" in Italian and "meacamas" In Spanish (otherwise known as "diente de león", lion's tooth).
PPWORK:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4:
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Mattias |
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