Dandelion Seed... captured

IPClark

A little different from Pauls superb dandelion shot

As previously mentioned in the springtail post, I was looking for an abstract on our Bottle Brush plant and spotted this dandelion seed trapped by a few spider web threads.



1/200th @f8, ISO 100

Lord Vetinari

NIce one ! - still waiting for the first of my bottle brushes to flower

Brian V.

IPClark

Thanks Brian,

yeah our bottle brush has a few flowers that are dying off but there's lots more new ones unfurling out. You can see in my image that the strands/tentacles (or whatever they would be called) are a little dry but just to the left, some new ones

Lord Vetinari

IPClark wrote: »

yeah our bottle brush has a few flowers that are dying off but there's lots more new ones unfurling out. You can see in my image that the strands/tentacles (or whatever they would be called) are a little dry but just to the left, some new ones

I have 4 different bottlebrushes in the garden - a yellow/white one always flowers first followed by a red then a pink/mauve and last another red one. The first and last ones I grew from seeds I collected in Melbourne and Sydney

Brian v.

IPClark

Do yours get lots of Ants walking up and down the strands? Ants seem to like ours very much. Ours is only a little infant.. barely a foot high and wide..

Giphsub

Cool shot Ian. Are your bottle brushes in Aus or in the US? Brian, you are lucky you were only taking seeds out of Australia. Our customs are extremely strict about bringing foreign seeds in.

IPClark

Thanks Giphsub.

Bottlebrush is in the UK

Giphsub

Ha! Well there you go! :lol