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A few flower images to sooth ones thoughts

 

Taken during our recent Cruise 🚢 trip to New Zealand and these photos were captured at Dunedin with a Canon EOS 70D

Can anyone spot the bumble bee ------ It was bloody huge

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, JL Sargent said:

Awesome. Do you know anything about that crazy looking tree with the green pods up and down it?

 

 

From memory I think it’s a central flower spike from a very large soft succulent 

The succulent itself grows about 4 feet in diameter and has oval soft leafy segments 

It was at Larnach Castle gardens 

 

 

 

 

 

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that is an agave type plant. That is it's last act. The bloom. All of that is one season's growth. Then the mother plant will die.  They typically "pup" -  clone/s from the root - as a means of propagating.

 

We have similar here, but ours aren't soft. They will TEAR YOU UP.

lemme see if I can pop a pic of ours. They are still babies. They are called CenturyPlants because it takes several years before they bloom.  They get quite large during that growth time.

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here ya go

baby agave  not sure of species

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a two year old dried flower stalk w/seed pods

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a wild flower A fiddlehead. This one is just getting started. The buds unroll from the end of the stalk  The flowers are small

 

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taken with my Kodak Brownie

just kidding Fuji S1000

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2 hours ago, WillyBob said:

good for you?

an excuse to sit inside and watch the games.

Yes it was. 

It was the Indiana High School finals today also. A little town I lived in for 3 years made it to the 1A final game....Morristown. It was like in the movie Hoosiers. Morristown won by 29 points. They played (and lost) in their only other appearance in a final game back in 1911. 

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On 3/24/2018 at 8:03 PM, Ceptorman said:

Yes it was. 

It was the Indiana High School finals today also. A little town I lived in for 3 years made it to the 1A final game....Morristown. It was like in the movie Hoosiers. Morristown won by 29 points. They played (and lost) in their only other appearance in a final game back in 1911. 

 

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