Your *amazing* macroscopic plant detail photos.

[Ganoderma]

I am doing a fair bit of research lately (mainly to do with photosynthesis and c02), and am finding i LOVE looking at great photos of plants parts.

 

i would love to see YOUR (please no google copies, i have seen them already :rolleyes:) photos without the scope, just camera shots. specifically of up close parts of the plants, roots, reproductive organs etc. how detailed can we get with "just" a camera?

 

cant wait to see if there are others with my perverse photo addiction

[Tormod]

I recommend starting a User group for this and then use that group's album - it makes it easier.

 

Or we could open up a folder in the gallery if you like?

[Tormod]

Here is a pic...not what you're looking for perhaps, but I think it's cool.

 

[Turtle]

I am doing a fair bit of research lately (mainly to do with photosynthesis and c02), and am finding i LOVE looking at great photos of plants parts.

 

i would love to see YOUR (please no google copies, i have seen them already :)) photos without the scope, just camera shots. specifically of up close parts of the plants, roots, reproductive organs etc. how detailed can we get with "just" a camera?

 

cant wait to see if there are others with my perverse photo addiction :D

 

I wish I had a microscope! Do you have one?

 

My plant hobbying has rather slacked back the last couple months, but I do enjoy the closeups. I see Tormod has put up a cool shot of a Rhododendron after the blooms have wilted, and one of my cooler accidental close-up shots of flower giblets is of a Rhody too. :cheer: Sounds like a fun theme to me; here's that shot. :(

[Tormod]

Ooooh...that is a beautiful shot, Turtle! :(

[Ganoderma]

love both those photos!!!

 

tormod, i thought about a social forum, but they seem hard to find for new people, and not as easy to figure out (no offense, i like the idea...just seems more complicated to use to simpler folks such as myself :D) if you made one i would join, but if possible i would like the thread in the forum as well :)

 

Turtle, i do have a microscope, but i need to figure out how to stain slides before i want to show my pathetic microscopic shots lol....so far my shots are rather plain.......natural we shall call them.

 

keep em coming. I think most of my pictures are of flowers too, but i think some nice root shots would be fascinating. one can learn so much just from looking at things, or at least we can assume so much :confused:

 

 

here area few i have taken, cacti related.

 

This shows the cambium/xylem/phloem (well that area anyway, maybe not all of us can see it).

 

this is a root of Lophophora williamsii. the top one is where the soil line is, rt meets plant.

2nd is about 1 cm down. you can seed the vascular bundle stretching

third is another 2-3 cm down where the tap root is splitting into 2

i lost the rest of the photos unfortunately.

 

here is a new cactus growing out from an areole (where the spines are).

 

 

Here is a lophophora "hybrid" (within the genus). these "spineless" cacti do have spines when young. this guy is about 3-4mm

 

 

 

this one is an Astrophytum asterias. cacti do have leaves, on their flower stems. some are easier to see than others.

 

same species' girly bits.

 

 

the birth of an areole on a crested Myrtillocactus geometrizans

 

and for now the final pic, natures paintbrushes! unknown tree specie.

[Turtle]

love both those photos!!!

 

tormod, i thought about a social forum, but they seem hard to find for new people, and not as easy to figure out (no offense, i like the idea...just seems more complicated to use to simpler folks such as myself :eek:) if you made one i would join, but if possible i would like the thread in the forum as well :D

 

Turtle, i do have a microscope, but i need to figure out how to stain slides before i want to show my pathetic microscopic shots lol....so far my shots are rather plain.......natural we shall call them.

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and for now the final pic, natures paintbrushes! unknown tree specie.

 

I'll put 'em wherever you fellas point me. :hihi: On the microscope, I was thinking plant bits without slides & sectioning. That last photo Ganoderma, may be Rhodora. Celebrating Wildflowers - Plant of the Week - Rhodora, Rhododendron canadense

 

I'll leave my ID off for the time being and focus on structure. :) :confused:

[mynah]

I'll put 'em wherever you fellas point me. :confused: On the microscope, I was thinking plant bits without slides & sectioning. That last photo Ganoderma, may be Rhodora. Celebrating Wildflowers - Plant of the Week - Rhodora, Rhododendron canadense

 

I thought it could be a Bauhinia species - but after looking at rhodora I am no longer sure! If the plant is still around, look at the anthers and leaves: Bauhinia has "normal" anthers with slit-like openings, and its leaves are bilobed (hence a common name of these trees, camel's foot.) Rhododendrons have anthers opening in pores at their tips (see first photo, which illustrates this beautifully) and entire leaves.

[Turtle]

I thought it could be a Bauhinia species - but after looking at rhodora I am no longer sure! If the plant is still around, look at the anthers and leaves: Bauhinia has "normal" anthers with slit-like openings, and its leaves are bilobed (hence a common name of these trees, camel's foot.) Rhododendrons have anthers opening in pores at their tips (see first photo, which illustrates this beautifully) and entire leaves.

 

Roger. Speaking of leaves, I got this shot this afternoon by placing the leaf directly over the lens & pointing it at the full Sun. :confused: :D :)

 

[mynah]

Great pic - can't wait to try it tomorrow...

[freeztar]

Roger. Speaking of leaves, I got this shot this afternoon by placing the leaf directly over the lens & pointing it at the full Sun. :confused: :D :)

 

Awesome! :eek:

I'll give that a try!! I don't really have any 'detail' macro photos as I try to get the full flower (and flower only) for the wildflowers group. I'll keep this thread in mind in the future though. :)

 

I do agree with Tormod that this would be a great idea to build a social group around. I also understand the objections that were brought up, but I think that the social goup can be made to be easy to find by simply posting a link to it in the first post.

 

Either way, this is cool and I'm *always* down for more plant discussions/pics. :hihi:

[Turtle]

wild carrot seeds

[Ganoderma]

hey, that's a damn fine idea! i am surprised it focused! any tips, or just auto?

 

 

edit: wow, nice carrot pics turtle!!!! what camera you using?

 

freezy! post full flower pics, flowers are a part of a plant :eek: it can be the plant for all i care as long as it details something about the plant :hihi: i just said plant parts cause its easier to get detailed pics of smaller areas.

 

 

here are a few more flower shots....unfortunately i have lost deleted or ________ my notes on many pictures like the flower above, so ID's i am not sure on....luckily many of these trees have tags and they are not far away, so when this lousy typhoon leaves i can go out and find out

 

 

 

The main thing i am studying right now are pigments in plants and photosynthesis, and at the same time i am looking at pigmentation for secondary reasons, such as pollinator attractors. fascinating world we live in.

 

Some flower shots. I find it amazing how many differences there are!!!!!!!! colour, texture, shape, frills, smooth, where the stigma/filaments are and relations, the ovaries, how complicated is pollination, which animals are best suited to fit etc. Some flowers almost seem psychedelic just staring at them!

 

Unknown vine growing at the Taipei zoo (6 hours away, so i wont be checking the ID)

 

 

some more unknowns from a bush by a topiary park near here

 

Canna

 

Some kind of Euphorbia...such shallow compact flowers......i am guess ants would be great pollinators here...as well as.....anything alive?

 

this was at a plant expo, i am kicking myself for not getting the name, but it is a squash of some kind.....its really too bad this pic isnt very good, cause the flowers are so fine its not even funny!

 

 

Lavender....sorry for all the blurry pics, its hard when its windy with these guys. I like to look at the base of the lavender flowers, would these be their ovaries? i never bothered to take apart a flower of these before.

 

 

Fire weed

 

Fly pollinating some chive flowers

 

 

 

Saskatoon berries at different stages.

[Turtle]

hey, that's a damn fine idea! i am surprised it focused! any tips, or just auto?

 

edit: wow, nice carrot pics turtle!!!! what camera you using?

 

Danke. Auto focus on the leaf, yes. I'm using the still-photo mode on a Sony HandyCam. The book says minimum focus distance is 1/8", and the lens is reset ~1/4 back from the hosing ring. I layed the leaf directly over the lens ring. The image I posted is a crop & the manual says stills are ~1 megapixel. Say pistol! :bouquet: er...;)

PS Love those top 2 deep red flower shots; very crisp.

 

candytuft seed pod

[freeztar]

 

Is that from your Handycam? ;)

[mynah]

Ganoderma

 

Your Taipei vine is Passiflora vitifolia, a species of passion flower native to Central America.

 

The third flower belongs to a Solandra (chalice vine or custard cup) species.

 

If you post some pics showing more of the plant in picture 2 I could have a bash at identifying it, if you want.

[Turtle]

Is that from your Handycam? :bouquet:

 

Roger. ;) The trickiest part at such very close proximity to the lens, is getting light on the subject. The other problem is depth of field I've noticed, and there is no option to adjust the f-stop on the cam. Say hairy!

 

leaf hairs of youth-on-age