(Explore #124: May 20, 2009)
For Ted. Happy Birthday!
Bluebird Estates, Alberta, Canada.
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(Explore #377: Sep 13, 2008).
For Cheryl and family at this sad time of loss.
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(Explore #377: Feb 25, 2009)
Click here to see Art Rock Hennie's Tribute Gallery of 18 of my photos, including this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/artrock2006/galleries/7215762378635...
For the 7 crew and 127 passengers and their families of today's crashed Turkish Airline, a Boeing 737 (Flight TK1951), at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Conflicting reports but so far it appears, miraculously...9 fatalities and 50 injured (25 seriously).
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Que deve ser comemorado com muita felicidade!!
Lágrima de Cristo (Clerodendron thomsonae) or Bleeding Heart Vine. Seen and captured in Morretes, PR, Brazil
This is not related to the common bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis). The common name [here] comes from the flowers which look like a drop of red blood exuding from the heart-shaped calyx.
Flower of Clerodendrum thomsoniae.
Regardless of its true identity, this is a spectacular plant when in flower. The small, slightly flat flowers have inflated, balloon-like white calyxes from which emerge brilliant crimson or dark red corollas with prominent stamens and style (the elongated part of the pistil) that extend way beyond the petals. The flowers are borne in terminal clusters (cymes) of 8-20 together. The flowers last several months, although the red corolla is short lived. As they age, the flowers turn from white to pale pink or lavender, then eventually become tan as they dry up. It will bloom most of the year given sufficient light and warmth, but is most prolific in summer.
www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/features/indoor-tenderpl...
HBW!
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(Explore #250: Oct 07, 2008).
In loving memory of my wonderful mother-in-law, Clari Alma Reimchen (1914-1989), who grew and loved hollyhocks.
The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea (Ál-ce-a) in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia. They are biennial or short-lived perennial plants growing to 3.5 m tall, with broad, rounded, palmately lobed leaves and numerous flowers, pink or yellow in the wild species, on the erect central stem.
Alcea species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix quadrigemina and the Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui). [...]
Culture
Remains of hollyhocks have been found in a Neanderthal burial site at Shanidar.
A stylized, symmetrical hollyhock is the seal of the Tokugawa family in Japan, and is often used as a reference to the era in Japan's history where that family ruled the country. Also known is the character 'Aoi no Ue' (or 'Awoi no Uye' 葵上, 'Lady Hollyhock') from The Tale of Genji.
In the Japanese graphic novels Lone Wolf and Cub the Hollyhock is the seal worn by Ogami Itto, the protagonist of the series, whilst he is in service to the shogun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyhock
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