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Toxic Orange


Toxic Orange
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Copyright: Anoop Sukumaran (anoop) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 14 W: 1 N: 14] (106)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-02-21
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S5000
Exposure: f/4.9, 1/340 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-03-31 4:48
Viewed: 1680
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Lantana Flowerets. Beautiful but toxic!
This plant was introduced to Asia as a decorative plant but now has become a troublesome weed. But read this to make you spine tingle:
" Lantana camara is one of the ten most noxious weeds in the world. It is toxic to animals and exerts allelopathic action on neighbouring vegetation. The pathological and biochemical effects of the lantana plant in cattle, sheep and guinea pigs have been determined."

The flowers are beautiful and the berries once ripe and black are edible.

The shot looks a bit soft, suggestions on improvement are welcome!!

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  • Great 
  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2156 W: 322 N: 4258] (16906)
  • [2005-04-26 11:59]

Anoop, I didn't know they were toxic.

I like the the use of dof here, ideal enough both to hightlight the flower and to blur the bg.

Great job.

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