Oxalis elegans.

Two Fritillarias from Olbrich Botanical Garden, Madison, WI

April 1, 2012

stilllifequickheart:

Julia Loken

Artichoke

2011

yama-bato:

Arabesques : mosquée d’El-Bordeyny : frises et bordures des petites chambres (XVIIe. siècle) (1877)

L’Art arabe d’après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe par Prisse d’Avennes.

This is Puya, I think. My amiga Rachel would know the species…

(Source: milkfloat, via astudyofplants)

wallacegardens:

Narcissus (1854) by Eduard Winkler, a German botanist specializing in poisonous and medicinal plants. 

(Source: biodiversitylibrary.org, via scientificillustration)

Heterostyly in the American bulb-bearing Oxalis. Floral morphs associated with tristylous and distylous breeding systems. Arrows indicate legitimate pollen transfer (Darwin, 1877). In fully functioning heterostylous breeding systems, pollinations other than those indicated by the arrows do not result in fertilization of ovules. Redrawn from Weller, et al. (2007).

“Rafflesia arnoldii is the world’s largest flower having a diameter of about one meter and weighing up to ten kilograms. It is a rare flower and not easily located. It grows only once a year and blooms for around five days. According to researches in discovery news, this flower that looks and smells like rotting flesh is related to flimsy flowers like violets, poinsettias and passionflowers. Hence it also called as “meat flower” or “corpse flower”.

The flower is pollinated by flies and carrion beetles attracted by its vile smell. It contains about 27 species and found in Indonesian rain forests of southeastern Asia and Philippines. Rafflesia is an official state flower of Indonesia, Surat Thani Province in Thailand and Sabah state in Malaysia.”

(via mesatawe)

ritacarreira:

Here is another botanical print; this one from an old German book with no copyright and that is available online. The images make great art prints that are virtually free—you still have to come up with paper, a printer, ink and possibly a frame.

(via scientificillustration)

sabrinacampagna:

Ovary (plants) insertion:

I) superior
II) half-inferior
III) inferior.

a) androecium
g) gynoecium
p) petals
s) sepals
r) receptacle.

The insertion point is where a, p, and s converge.

stilllifequickheart:

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

Botanical

1575

(via scientificillustration)

Poppies at the Albq BioPark.

electricorchid:

The rick rack cactus (Selenicereus anthonyanus) is a rare epiphyte from the rainforests of southern Mexico. Its stunning flowers open at dusk, to be visited by moths and bats. | +