False Solomon's Seal berries against a background of dark green & shadows. The berries towards the top are light cream colour, heavily speckled with red. The lower half of the cluster is bright red, the berries are highlighted by the sun's light coming from the left.
#ColourADay #RedWed #Maianthemum
Maianthemum racemosum aka False Solomon's Seal
Ceanothus sanguineus, red-stemmed ceanothus. Many tiny white pentangular flowers arranged in panicles. Ceanothus occurs all up and down the west coast of North America, but you are likely more familiar with the blue-violet species from warmer areas. They have floral/honey frangrances but this one is ... just odd. Not like anything else and you couldn't really call it pleasant. I read that it's hard to propagate, too. All that makes it much less interesting to commerce.
Delphinium nuttallianum, upland larkspur. Against a background of silver and grey-silver-green grasses, a stem of six flowers. Each has five sepals that resemble petals, a gorgeous bright cobalt blue, a long nectar spur sticking out of the back of the flower, and a "bee" in front of the sepals. The bee is made op of the actual petals, two of which are turned upward, white with blue veining, and the others turned down, deeper blue with fuzz on them, curled around to protect the stamens.
Delphinium nuttallianum, upland larkspur. Blurry forest duff in BG. Here you can more clearly see the stamens. The insect mimicry of the "bee" even extends to there being several infertile stamens sticking out the sides of the "bee" resembling legs.
Maianthemum racemosum, false solomon's seal. Closeup on the starry white flowers with spiky stamens tipped with gold pollinia. In the BG leaves and forest duff.
Spring flowers, BC.
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Maianthemum dilatatum, snakeroot. A big colony of the plant forming an edge-to-edge texture. Each plant has one or several heart-shaped leaves, brilliant green, and some have budding flower stems.
Maianthemum racemosum, False Solomon's Seal, in bud. The bud is like a cluster of small green-yellow nodules, it's at the end of a single stem, and down the rest of the stem are the lanceolate leaves. Blurry dark BG.
Paxistima myrsinites, Oregon Boxwood. Tiny deep red flowers about 2 mm across clustered in bunches growing directly from the twig, leathery green leaves much bigger. Blurry green BG.
Rubus spectabilis, Salmonberry. Facing us, a spent flower showing the beginnings of the salmonberry, like a pale green raspberry, but still holding onto the ring of stamens. Just behind it and off to the side, a newly opened flower, brilliantly magenta, with thickly clustered yellow stamens. Behind both, a leaf with three leaflets. All attached to a twig. Blurry green BG.
Spring flora, #BC.
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Maianthemum paniculatum grows in montane forests from Mexico to Panama. It bears white or pinkish flowers in large panicles and bright red fruits. Though usually terrestrial, it can be epiphytic, and may reach up to 2 meters tall.
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A low shot of a carpet of leafy plants growing from brown leaf litter. The plants each have a single leaf, thick and straight-veined, which are in various stages of uncurling from thin tubes to wide, heart-shaped leaves.
Maianthemum dilatatum grows in beautiful carpets across the forest floor in our region, and they've finally started cropping up this spring.
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#マイヅルソウ 【北海道自宅周辺】6月下旬
赤い実をつけ始めていましたよ。マイヅルソウの実は、真っ赤ではなくて、こんな感じなのですが、えーと。これを言葉でどう表現したら良いのか、わからないです。細かいひび割れがある、だと違いますよね。うーん。
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