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  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees

    • 14 May 2012
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    • Bees Dewdrops Flora May 14 2012 Optical Photographs
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    "The photo above provides a wonderful demonstration of the physics of light in water drops as well as the attraction of water molecules to plant molecules and to one another. In this case, the liquid drops result from rain and fog. A drop of liquid behaves like a simple lens – just like a camera. Therefore, the refracted image is upside-down when viewed through the drop. Somehow, bees, such as this bumblebee, figure out this hall of mirrors and are able to get to the daisies’ nectar. "
    via epod.usra.edu

     

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  • Grevillea formosa

    • 29 Apr 2012
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    • April 29 2012 Austria Flora Photographs
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    by andrachne

    Grevillea formosa
    Family :Proteaceae

    Bushy shrub,0.5 m in height, with finely divided foliage. Flower buds are green, opening into yellow orange flowers, with orange styles.

    Northern Territory, around Darwin,Australia.

    via flickr.com

     

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  • Grevillea thyrsoides, subsp. thyrsoides

    • 13 Apr 2012
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    • April 13 2012 Australia Flora
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    by andrachne
    Found on the Geraldton Sandplains of Western Australia  
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  • The Luminescent Flowers of Galassia

    • 11 Apr 2012
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    • April 11 2012 Flora Fluorescense Luminescent
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    "Galassia Flowers are fluorescent flowers. The fluorescence enhances the natural beauty of the flowers, and takes flower colour to a new level.

    Galassia Flowers have been developed by Bioconst, a company based in Adelaide, a city with a strong reputation in plant science research and development.

    Based in South Australia, Bioconst is a globally-focussed business that uses novel technologies to develop a range of plants that emit light.

    Galassia Flowers, Bioconst's first products, fluoresce due to the application of a fluorescent formulation. For their beauty to be revealed, they need ultra-violet (UV) light. This is supplied by custom-designed illumination devices, also developed by Bioconst."

    via galassiaflowers.com.au

     

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  • "Abyss" by Mohan Duwal

    • 7 Apr 2012
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    • April 07 2012 Flora Photographs
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    via 500px.com

     

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  • Flowers and Butterflies in the Nude ~ Cecelia Webber Photography

    • 27 Mar 2012
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    • Butterflies Flora March 27 2012 Photo Manipulation Photographs
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    "Los Angeles based artist Cecelia Webber creates flower and butterfly assemblages from hundreds of nude human form photographs. Cecelia’s photographic compositions can take up to two months to produce due to the complexity of finding the right pieces. The result is lovely."
    via amolife.com

     

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  • How to grow a Rainbow Rose, Naturally

    • 13 Mar 2012
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    • Flora Horticulture March 13 2012 Rainbows Technology
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    "In 2004, two dutch companies, River Flowers and F.J. Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water. This way all the colors will be drawn by the stem into petals and resultant rose will have all the colors in it."
    via mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com

     

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  • The Life of Flowers {Жизнь цветов}

    • 10 Mar 2012
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    • Film Shorts Flora March 10 2012 Timelapse
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    by Vladimir Vorobyov : Astana city, Kazakhstan.

    This is a simple video with the music.
     
    Video footages: Artbeats Timelapse Flowers
    Music : West One Music. 
    Album : 067 Simple Strings. 
    Track : Happy-go-lucky

     

    view larger via player.vimeo.com

     

    Shared by Sharon...Thanks !

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  • The Bee-friendly Garden ~ a slideshow

    • 2 Mar 2012
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    • Flora Gardens Honeybees March 02 2012
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    "Scientists at the University of Sussex have created an experimental garden to test which flowering plants bees and other pollinators have a preference for. The team focused on plants that flower in July and August, as this appears to be the time of year when bees have to travel the furthest to forage."
    via bbc.co.uk

     

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  • Orchid's bloom captured on camera

    • 23 Feb 2012
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    • February 23 2012 Film Shorts Flora Stop Motion Timelapse
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    The Neomoorea irrorata orchid in bloom
     
    "Orchid enthusiast Don Dennis captured the beautiful bloom by photographing it 9,211 times over for 33 days and 30 minutes using a time lapse technique."
    watch via bbc.co.uk

     

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