Flowers and other Flora

[Del Paso]

Few more from the same botanical garden - I returned to solve a problem described in the "Mushrooms" topic...
First time noticed small tree with "appetizing looking" fruits: turns out to be a Strychnine Tree (Strychnos nux-vomica) . I wander why there is no warning label for it's toxicity - the garden is full with families with small (and pretty crazy!) children!!!

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I love the one with the gecko (?)

My collection from the last few weeks: Candle tree, Calabash tree, the white form of the Crown flower, Imperial bromelia, unknown Bromeliad and for the rest I have no idea...


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You live in paradise, don't you?

 

[ISv]

I love the one with the gecko (?)

You live in paradise, don't you?

Yes, it's Phelsuma laticauda.
I'm not so sure especially after my return home from today's trip: you don't want to be in that traffic !

 

[Nemorino]

R5 + Laowa RF 58mm macro
Stack of 29 frames @ f/2.8

 

[neuroanatomist]

Playing around with a bouquet of flowers from TraderJoes, my full-spectrum M6 and the Kolari full-spectrum flash with UV and IR output filters.

White

EOS M6 full spectrum, EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM, 1/6 s, f/5, ISO 400

IR 850nm (BW conversion)

EOS M6 full spectrum, EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM, 2 s, f/5, ISO 100 (single flash at 1/4 power)

UV

EOS M6 full spectrum, EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM, 30 s, f/5, ISO 6400 (~12 flashes at full power)

 

[ISv]

 

[ISv]

Today from my most frequented Botanical garden. First two are endemic to Hawaii. The last one is from Africa - endangered (Napoleon Hat tree)!

 

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Beautiful flowers.

 

[jabird56]

Another year at the 2025 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Show

Canon EOS 90D
Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Maven CPL filter
Processed with DxO Photolab Elite 8 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024

 

[jabird56]

Part II

 

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Very nice series, jabird56

 

[ISv]

I have no idea how many times I have been in that botanical garden but it seems there is always some surprise waiting there for me. I don't know this tree and unfortunately they didn't put a label around it.

 

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Lovely flower.

 

[dpc]

Orchid...

 

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Nicely done, dpc.

 

[ISv]

The first one is kind of dangerous tree: fruits are not only poisonous but could get up to several kg in weight: you don't want to be around when they are falling (Sausage Tree - Kigelia africana). After that a Water Hyacinth - beautiful and at least twice as invasive! The third one I don't know...

 

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Beautiful flowers, nicely done, ISv.

 

[Noreaster]

 

[dpc]

Taken yesterday with my old 7DMll with the EF 70-300mmL - thought I'd break the combo out just because. Takes beautiful pictures but I wish it had a few more megapixels for cropping. It's heavy as lead, built like a brick and I should use it more.

 

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Lovely. Nicely done, dpc.

 

[ISv]

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On Hawaii I'm really missing the fragrance and the beauty of the Lilac (and I'm from a country where it exists in the wild)!
Here we have really exotic trees/flowers but somehow they are not able to make me that happy (nostalgia for sure!)!!!