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06-03-2018, 06:20 AM - 4 Likes   #1366
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Poppies are one of those flowers with very interesting stamens/anthers. During the film era we had some huge Oriental poppies in our garden that I photographed multiple times to capture that interesting center.
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Small flowers ganging up to make a good-sized clusters. Blackberry or something akin.

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Larger garden flowers.

Larger garden flowers from the magical light hour early Sunday morning.
KIT: K-1 with Pentax 67 135mm f 4.0 macro. This lens is not really a macro, far from 1:1, but close focussing and an excellent flower lens. I am getting a higher percentage of SOC than with an other lens I have used except maybe the Kiron 105mm f 2.8 1:1 macro.
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I hope this qualifies as a flower. Latrobe, Tasmania. K-3 + DA 55-300 PLM.



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I hope this qualifies as a flower. Latrobe, Tasmania. K-3 + DA 55-300 PLM.
Yes, we have that same thistle in northern Ohio USA, and yours are simply missing the small petals.
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Yes, we have that same thistle in northern Ohio USA, and yours are simply missing the small petals.
Thanks Ivan. I think my doubt was more metaphysical than botanical - is a dead flower a flower?
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That plant seed head (the plant is called teasel) once had multiple tiny flowers which would open in a wave starting at the base and working toward the top. The sturdy, stiff, very sharp & prickly dry seed head was used for combing fabric, especially wool, to pull up or fluff out the surface, a processes called "teasing' (hmmmm...). The native habitat is Europe, so it is an introduced alien in both the USA and Australia, and although I do not know whether by accident or intentionally, I suspect the latter for the purpose of using it for processing wool.
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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
That plant seed head (the plant is called teasel) once had multiple tiny flowers which would open in a wave starting at the base and working toward the top. The sturdy, stiff, very sharp & prickly dry seed head was used for combing fabric, especially wool, to pull up or fluff out the surface, a processes called "teasing' (hmmmm...). The native habitat is Europe, so it is an introduced alien in both the USA and Australia, and although I do not know whether by accident or intentionally, I suspect the latter for the purpose of using it for processing wool.
Thanks Walt. You are a font of information. That was very helpful as I couldn't put a name on it.

It looks like your suspicion is correct. I found a work on weeds in Australia which says that the history of the introduction of teasel to Australia is not known but it could have been for commercial use as it was listed in an 1871 report as having commercial potential in the wool industry. The first Australian record was in South Australia in 1870. It is now fairly common in Tasmania, NSW and Victoria (where it is declared as a noxious weed: Wild Teasel - AgVic).
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Thanks Walt. You are a font of information. That was very helpful as I couldn't put a name on it.

It looks like your suspicion is correct. I found a work on weeds in Australia which says that the history of the introduction of teasel to Australia is not known but it could have been for commercial use as it was listed in an 1871 report as having commercial potential in the wool industry. The first Australian record was in South Australia in 1870. It is now fairly common in Tasmania, NSW and Victoria (where it is declared as a noxious weed: Wild Teasel - AgVic).
The term applied in the USA is "invasive pest."
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Do big leaves count in here? Or are ya'll gonna be botanical racists here?!
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I don't think any Pentaxians are truly intolerant of any reasonable image that is posted. Neither of the flowers below are truly "larger" but they make an impression when flowering in mass. Commercial daisy-like flowers (I think they should be called "Marguerites") and I think wild geranium growing along the road. I didn't get out of the car to look at the latter more closely, just did a turn-around and paused briefly to snap an image from inside. The Marguerites were in shadow on our deck; the geraniums in very harsh, contrasty full sun = what for most flowers is really bad lighting.
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