August 09, 2007
succulent ala Georgia O'Keefe
succulent, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Canon Digital Rebel XTi
Not much to offer you,
Just a lotus flower floating
In a small jar of water.
- Ryokan (1758-1831)
For Matt's birthday we went to the UC Berkeley Botanical garden to check out the ginormous corpse flower that blooms every twelve years. It was rumored to be bigger than human size and smell like rotting flesh! We were intrigued. It had closed up when we arrived and it didn't smell, but was amazing just the same. Here is a nice shot of it open.
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Posted by: bgspvjmue zuvlq at August 17, 2007 05:19 PMThat is lovely! I did a whole cactus post when we got back form the grand canyon in March, I love how they shoot!!
Posted by: aimee/greeblemonkey at August 12, 2007 10:54 PMThis is an awesome shot! I like the way it detail and how you made use of DOF. Good Job!
Posted by: ChaCha at August 11, 2007 04:33 AMSounds interesting and wierd all at the same time!I like the close up of this succulent. It looks as if someone painted it around the edges, wonderful!
Posted by: Lori at August 10, 2007 12:19 PMlove the photo.
Posted by: alex at August 10, 2007 10:07 AMGorgeous photo!
I spent my birthday (back in February) at the UC Berkeley Botanical garden too! What a lovely place. I think I may need to get down there again to see that corpse flower. How interesting.
Posted by: Carrie at August 10, 2007 09:52 AMThat is a ridiculously huge flower, I've never heard of such a thing!
Posted by: Toni at August 10, 2007 07:45 AMHere via Daily Relish...
Love your succulent photo, it appears to be an agave. The corpse flower is called a voodoo lily and there are several species. Here in Florida Fairchild Gardens has one that blooms fairly often. We're lucky enough to grow a few of them but haven't personally had one flower! There's also a pretty cool smelly flower called a starfish cactus that the flower looks like a starfish but it smells rotten as well. It draws flies to it which in turn pollinate it.
Posted by: misti at August 10, 2007 04:22 AMThat IS an amazing corpse flower (chooko-link). Yet MORE proof that god drops acid.
Posted by: steph at August 9, 2007 11:19 PMThat IS an amazing corpse flower. Yet MORE proof that god drops acid.
Posted by: steph at August 9, 2007 11:18 PMBeautiful picture!
I think I was dragged against my will by my parents to see that flower the last time it opened, 12ish years ago.
That is beautiful, and what a fun birthday outting! I really like this Andrea-blogging-more stuff. I get excited when I see a new entry!
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