Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: clsoe-up

Thought I might as well add this to my Flickr photostream. I have just created the mosaic to send to the friends who spent Friday botanizing and searching for fungi on Rod Handfield's property, SW of Calgary, near Millarville. I have so many other fungi photos from that day (many that didn't come out - had such a problem with getting any focus and so many photos were blown out), and it is going to take ages to go through them. I knew the ID for some of these, but I have now been given the ID for all but one image - thanks so much, Karel! Photo 1 is a Slime Mold Photo 2 is Violet Toothed Polypore (Trichaptum fuscoviolaceum) Photo 3 is Cystoderma cinnabarinum Photo 4 is Eyelash fungi, Scutellinia scutellata Photo 5 is Russula emetica (The Sickener) Photo 7 is Cystoderma cinnabarinum Photo 8 is a Saddle Fungus, Helvella sp. Photo 9 is Ergot fungus (which can even cause death). No "need" to comment, especially as I will eventually add the individual photos to my photostream.

Photographed (macro) at the Reader Rock Garden, on July 6th. I have only seen this introduced species growing in the wild maybe a couple of times in Calgary, but it is listed as Prohibited Noxious. "The ancient Greeks believed hawks’ feeding on the sap of hawkweed is what gave them their keen eyesight. Other common names are devil’s paintbrush and red devil." From: www.invasiveplants.ab.ca/Downloads/FS-OrangeHawkweed.pdf

An old photo dug up from my archives, going back to July 2007. I thought the petals of this Gerbera were such a pretty shade of pink.