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Typha Heads
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Some typha heads (female flowers) agains a snowy, rocky background.
I don't know which species they are.
More on typha from wikipedia:
Typha is a genus of about eleven species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the monogeneric family, Typhaceae. The genus has a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution, but is essentially cosmopolitan. These plants are known as bulrush or bullrush (mainly in British English), cattail or punks (mainly in American English), or in some older British texts or the current guide book Collins Complete British Wildlife as Great Reedmace.
Cattails or bulrushes are wetland plants, typically 1 to 7 m tall (T. minima is smaller: 0.5-1 m), with spongy, strap-like leaves and starchy, creeping stems (rhizomes). The leaves are alternate and mostly basal to a simple, jointless stem that eventually bears the flowers. The rhizomes spread horizontally beneath the surface of muddy ground to start new upright growth, and the spread of cattails is an important part of the process of open water bodies being converted to vegetated marshland and eventually dry land.
Typha plants are monoecious, wind-pollinated, and bear unisexual flowers developing in dense, complex spikes. The male flower spike develops at the top of the vertical stem, above the female flower spike (see figure below). The male (staminate) flowers are reduced to a pair of stamens and hairs and wither once the pollen is shed, leaving a short, bare stem portion above the female inflorescence. The dense cluster of female flowers forms a cylindrical spike some 10 to as much as 40 cm long and 1 to 4 cm broad. Seeds are minute (about 0.2 mm long), and attached to a thin hair or stalk, which effects wind dispersal. Typha are often among the first wetland plants to colonize areas of newly exposed wet mud. |
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- gondox
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(1427) - [2008-02-12 7:28]
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Hi Sayat,
wonderful compo, a very fine and artistic presentation of the plant. In Hungarian we call it something I could translate as "mace". I don't know the exact species either though.
But it look very fine for sure, TFS!
Regards,
Andor
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- dejo
(2238)
- [2008-02-12 7:32]
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Hello Sayat,
beutiful picture!
I like the composition very much, great colors and clarity!
best regards,
Dejan
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- Alex99
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- [2008-02-12 9:01]
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Hi Sayat.
Thanks for this charming, true art picture of the wonderful scene. I am impressed with beautifulness of the BG (it is great godsend), amazing sunlight and perfect sharpness (details of the plants). You managed to reproduce even tiny details of the so attractive subject. Composition is creative and fine as well as the framing of the great shot. Bravo and best regards.
Alexei.
Sade, çok güzel bir kompozisyon Sayat, geri plan da etkileyici, ellerine sağlık.
Mehmet
Hi Sayat,
This grass was very common where I live. But, since all the wasteland has been used, I have not seen it for many years now.
Thanks a lot for sharing this picture.
- Nirmal
Hello Sayat,
Beautiful! I like a lot your composition, with cattails (known here as totoras) against that blurred and simple rocky and snowed BG. Sunlight is very nice and warm.
Greetings
Hernán
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