A closer look
False Coral fungus
Forest goblets
Splash of blue
Is this Clavulinopsis laeticolor?
A sad ending, I suspect
Little orange beauties
The (almost) perfectionist
Time to feed a hungry youngster
Lamb's Ear / Stachys sp.
Cloud dominance
Pink and pretty
Common Sargeant / Athyma perius
Fall in the Rockies
Forgotten fungus
Rocky Mountains around Canmore, near Banff
Tiny Saddle Fungus in the sunlight
Such a beauty
Eye-catching red
House Wren
A fancy fungus
Gentle curves
Santa's on his way
Yellow-headed Blackbird from the archives
Wilson's Snipe
Banded Orange, Dryadula phaetusa
Spring delight
Glorious Gazania - and tiny friend
Hidden amongst the branches
Little pink bells
Unidentified
One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora
Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
Timber Wolf enjoying the sun
Concentration
Wavy shadows
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Carnations for his sweetheart : )
Arethusa Cirque, Kananaskis
Watch out for its stranglehold
Larch flowers
Waiting ....
Misleading beauty
The sweetest kitten
Sausage Tree flower .... seriously!
An oldie from my archives
Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Rare Przewalski Horses
Just a few more weeks
Common Indian Crow butterfly (Euploea core)
Shocking PINK
Beautiful Sacred Lotus
Love those hairy bracts
Monarch beauty
Slime Mold
Beware!
Arethusa Cirque trail, Kananaskis
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Lest We Forget
Pretty little thing
Tiny Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina
Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in the rai…
Basking in the early morning sun
Look what I unearthed : )
Chunky fungi
Alpine Bistort / Polygonum viviparum
Colourful Wood Ducks
Twins
4 x 2 = 8
Great Blue Heron
Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park
Tiny trio
Double-crested Cormorant
Beauty on a rotting log
Spotlight on elegance
Scaly/Shingled Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Wood Duck female
Cascade Ponds, near Banff, Alberta
Glorious sunset over Great Falls, Montana
Portrait of a fine bird
Common Gaillardia
Don't you just want to put it in your pocket and t…
Layer upon layer
Always a treat to see
Majestic, even in captivity
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Edelweiss / Leontopodium alpinum
Fence and flowers
Fuchsia
Healthy and hungry
If you go down to the woods today...
Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda
A bird for a change
Periwinkle
Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Vermilion Lakes near Banff
Swift Fox / Vulpes velox
Hiding in the grass - Amanita muscaria
Fungus on a fallen branch
Bee on Globe Thistle
Mom has a nap, Dad takes over
Slime mold on moss
A few fungi from Friday
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Ergot fungus
Never tease a Teasel
Cystoderma cinnabarinum
Eyelash fungi / Scutellinia scutellata
Atlas Moth / Attacus atlas
Forest goblet
The Sickener / Russula emetica
Aptenia cordifolia Syn. Mesembryanthemum cordifoli…
Fungi decoration
Comb tooth fungi / Hericium coralloides
Scarlet Mormon / Papilio rumanzovia
Wishing the heat would go away
Puffball beauty
A view from Rod Handfield's
Resting for one brief moment
Earth Star fungus
Beautiful Comma butterfly
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Anthurium
Photographed this Anthurium in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo, on 30 April 2012. I remember being surprised when I saw it, as I usually see either white, pink or red Anthuriums, but not pale green. The tiny spider has been busy spinning its web.
"Anthurium is a large genus of about 600–800 (possibly 1,000) species of flowering plants, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). Anthurium can also be called "flamingo flower" or "boy flower", both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix.
Anthurium flowers are small (about 3 mm) and develop crowded in a spike on a fleshy axis, called a spadix, a characteristic of the Araceae. The flowers on the spadix are often divided sexually with a sterile band separating male from female flowers. This spadix can take on many forms (club-shaped, tapered, spiraled, and globe-shaped) and colors (white, green, purple, red, pink, or a combination).
Anthurium inflorescenceThe spadix is part of an inflorescence, the outer portion of which is known as the spathe. The spathe may be a single color (yellow, green, or white) or possibly multicolored including burgundy and red. That sometimes colorful, solitary spathe is a showy modified bract that can be somewhat leathery in texture. Anthurium grown for the florist trade generally have highly coloured spathes and spadices. There are no flowers on the spathe as is sometimes thought; flowers are found solely on the spadix. The spathe can vary in color from pale green to white, rose, orange or shiny red (such as A. andrenaum). The color changes between the bud stage and the anthesis, (the time the flower expands). Thus the color might change from pale green to reddish purple to reddish brown."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthurium
Hope everyone has had a great long weekend!
"Anthurium is a large genus of about 600–800 (possibly 1,000) species of flowering plants, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). Anthurium can also be called "flamingo flower" or "boy flower", both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix.
Anthurium flowers are small (about 3 mm) and develop crowded in a spike on a fleshy axis, called a spadix, a characteristic of the Araceae. The flowers on the spadix are often divided sexually with a sterile band separating male from female flowers. This spadix can take on many forms (club-shaped, tapered, spiraled, and globe-shaped) and colors (white, green, purple, red, pink, or a combination).
Anthurium inflorescenceThe spadix is part of an inflorescence, the outer portion of which is known as the spathe. The spathe may be a single color (yellow, green, or white) or possibly multicolored including burgundy and red. That sometimes colorful, solitary spathe is a showy modified bract that can be somewhat leathery in texture. Anthurium grown for the florist trade generally have highly coloured spathes and spadices. There are no flowers on the spathe as is sometimes thought; flowers are found solely on the spadix. The spathe can vary in color from pale green to white, rose, orange or shiny red (such as A. andrenaum). The color changes between the bud stage and the anthesis, (the time the flower expands). Thus the color might change from pale green to reddish purple to reddish brown."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthurium
Hope everyone has had a great long weekend!
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