Purple fall foliaged Dewberry, Rubus flagellaria with evergreen Smilax rotundifolia vine.

🌱 #native Dewberry #Rubus flagellaris with slow growing #native #Smilax rotundifolia

청가시덩굴

#Smilax

Clusters of green male flowers (Smilax spp. are dioecious; male and female flowers are borne on separate plants).

Leaves, flowers, and tendrils.

#Smilax sp. 🌱

The merry month of May I visited my daughter who lives in Chicago over Easter. As much as I loved seeing my daughter, I dreaded the trip north into the cold, cold breeze off of

Facts and folklore about the crocus: www.keysnews.com/living/colum... #crocus #flowers #spring #folklore #may #smilax

A cluster of vibrant, fully open purple crocuses (from a previous springtime) is backlit by spring sunshine

💜🌱🤍In #Greek #mythology the youth Crocus fell in love with the #nymph #Smilax. So devoted were the #lovers the gods turned #crocus into the named #flower & Smilax into bindweed so the two were eternally together 💜🌱🌸 #FolkloreSunday theme #LOVE #LOVERS @haniestep.bsky.social @venetiajane.bsky.social

A broad leaf with splotches of intense red along the sides, backlit by the late afternoon Sun

The Colors of Stress.

This is NOT an example of Fall color.  The #Smilax vines down here in South Georgia are not deciduous.  This is an example of stress pigmentation (Anthocyanin I think) possibly caused by insect predation.

#FujiFilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro

#Plants
#NaturePhotography
#Stress