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Yucca Plants


Yucca Plants
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Copyright: Tim Epp (BillyGoat) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 247 W: 27 N: 878] (4711)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-04
Categories: Bushveld
Camera: OLYMPUS E-500, Zuiko 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6, Hoya 58 mm UV
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/200 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Edible [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-11-01 23:55
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[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Here's a bit of a photo throwback to my Joshua Tree Nat'l Pake excursion back in February. For some reason the sky turned out a bit wonky on the resize.

Taken from Wikipedia:
The yuccas comprise the genus Yucca of 40-50 species of perennials, shrubs, and trees in the agave family Agavaceae, notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal clusters of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North America, Central America, and the West Indies.
Yucca brevifolia flowers
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Yucca brevifolia flowers

Yuccas have a very specialized pollination system, being pollinated by the yucca moth; the insect purposefully transfers the pollen from the stamens of one plant to the stigma of another, and at the same time lays an egg in the flower; the moth larva then eats some of the developing seeds, but far from all.

Yuccas are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Many yuccas also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems, and more rarely roots, but use of these is sufficiently limited that references to yucca as food more often than not stem from confusion with the similarly spelled but botanically unrelated yuca.
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Hi Tim, I love the contrast of shadows and sunlight - amazing colours and so much depth - wonky sky is great too!! TFS

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  • Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 886 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
  • [2006-11-02 10:02]

I spotted the similarity immediately... from your previous photos.

the light is amazing isn't... the sky is a touch grainy but I can cope given there is most of the picture is fine... great details and I love the yucca flowers... like young sapplings in the autumn...

TFS
Emma

Hi Tim,

Nicely done! Your composition is very good. The sand trail invites you towards the rock formation but the trail is obstructed by a dead tree. Instead you have these golden trees that seams to indicates your way to rocks. I like very much these desert scenes. The low light gives a nice tone to the picture. My only observation is that there is some noise in the picture. Maybe from heavy sharpness? I will try a workshop this evening. In any case, it is a favorite picture to me just for the composition.

PC :)

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