RHH's photos with the keyword: botanic

Photographed in the butterfly house at the Devonian Botanic Gardens near Edmonton, this Common Blue Morpho was resting on the glass with his wings opened and so I was able to get a decent picture. The colors of these insects are incredible and no picture can do just to their shimmering and changing beauty.

This was taken in the Singapore Botanic Gardens and Kavanaru has identified the bird as the Crimson Sunbird, the national bird of Singapore. The photo was taken by my wife who got better photos of the bird than I did.

These mushrooms, examples of the widespread species, Coprinus comatus, are known as Lawyer's Wigs, Shaggy Ink Caps or more commonly as Shaggy Mane mushrooms. They are edible when young and are even grown commercially in some places, but as they age they begin to "melt" as is evident from some of the individual plants in this photo. The photo was taken at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, in the area of Edmonton. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/07/around-devo...