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Amy Nicolai
{K:3432} 4/15/2005
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Peter, one of my peculiar talents is that I seem to be able to remember the names of flowers. I'm not so good on trees or shrubs or ferns, but flowers are easy. Originally I considered majoring in botany until I figured out that there are no jobs (that pay anything) in botany. Amy
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Peter Daniel
{K:33866} 4/15/2005
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Thanks Amy, As usual you came through... I think I need to e-mail you my shots before I post them for identification.. LOL ;~} I'm posting more yard weeds today... had to mow again...
Thanks again Peter
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Teunis Haveman
{K:53426} 4/15/2005
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Amy, thanks for the Kind of words
Callirhoe, I have never seen or reed from this flower
I have an Book whit most plant of teh world ,but I found not this name
Good work
Thanks very much
Teunis
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Amy Nicolai
{K:3432} 4/15/2005
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Teunis, I'll answer for Peter... Here is some info pulled from the web on this lovely little flower - which is one of my favorite Texas spring flowers. Amy
Wine-Cup
by Valerie (May 23, 2000)
revised August 24, 2003
The wine-cup, or poppy-mallow (Callirhoe digitata), is one of the most brilliant of our wildflowers. It is a low, sprawling perennial with a thick, tuberous root, capable of surviving droughts and poor, rocky soil. It doesn't usually grow in large groups, more often there are a few scattered plants among other wildflowers. It seems to do well in partial shade and we have a number of plants scattered throughout the gardens.
There are two similar species of wine-cup that grow in this area. While the flowers look the same, the other species (Callirhoe involucrata) tends to be a bit more robust, with larger seed heads, more flowers per plant, and more foliage. The more slender and delicate species that we grow is sometimes called standing wine-cup to differentiate it from the other, but they both tend to grow up to about 1? feet, then sort of flop over. The easiest way to tell them apart is the presence of what looks like an extra set of three bracts below the usual five right next to the petals. This occurs only on C. involucrata and is called a involucel.
An unusual feature of this flower is its foliage, which is different during the winter, when it grows in a low cluster, with wide scalloped leaves, and the spring and summer, when it sends out long stems for the flowers but also produces thin, deeply-notched leaves. The magenta blossoms attract many bees and small wasps.
While I've never been able to start standing wine-cup from seed (all our plants were salvaged from a construction site), I have been able to germinate the seeds of C. involucrata. Although the germination rate was low, once the seedlings put out a couple of small leaves, they did very well and handled the heat of their first summer with no ill effects.
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Maria José Barres
{K:11276} 4/15/2005
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very nice texture and color!
Greetings.
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Hanggan Situmorang
{K:37833} 4/15/2005
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Marvelous, Peter. Great color and macro. Good work, my friend.
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Jan Graziano
{K:17920} 4/15/2005
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Ditto - the other comments - look at that pollen will you? Great detail and beautiful colors.
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 4/14/2005
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Excellent macro of this one, Peter! The colour is spectacular, and you've got very good details inside.
Dave.
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Roberto Okamura
{K:22851} 4/14/2005
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Great details Peter!
Cheers!
Roberto.
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C.A. Mikulice
{K:13300} 4/14/2005
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this certainly pops right off of the page, Peter! Nice deep depth of field, rich colors and great detail.
christine
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Alejandro Gómez
{K:4270} 4/14/2005
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Nice, very nice. I like colours and details. Congrats!
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Riny Koopman
{K:19998} 4/14/2005
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Great moment from nature Peter daniel, and fantastic colours to!
God bless you.
Take care,
Riny.
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Teunis Haveman
{K:53426} 4/14/2005
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Peter, beautiful wild flower
Beautiful macro
Name?
Teunis
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