Defensive Strategies

renfaireguy

I frequently visit the local botanical gardens here in Southern California, and I always bring my camera. The diversity of interesting things to photograph in these places always astounds me.

One subject which has interested me is how plants have evolved their various defensive capabilities.

Here's some shots of some of the things I found.

#1 is from the Huntington library rose garden.


#2 is from the desert garden in the Huntington library:



And #3 is from the Living Desert zoo and botanical garden:

job3210

They look like some serious spikes (ouch)

MichelleL

job3210 wrote:

They look like some serious spikes (ouch)

My first thought was ouch as well. Amazingly though, some animals use this defence for themselves as well.

Skippy

renfaireguy wrote:

I frequently visit the local botanical gardens here in Southern California, and I always bring my camera. The diversity of interesting things to photograph in these places always astounds me.

One subject which has interested me is how plants have evolved their various defensive capabilities.

Here's some shots of some of the things I found.

#1 is from the Huntington library rose garden.
#2 is from the desert garden in the Huntington library:
And #3 is from the Living Desert zoo and botanical garden:

Ooooooooouch even, these look like they'd be quite nasty to come in contact with especially the second and third ones.

Ya don't wanna go looking for those kinda plants in the dark,
no sirrrrreeeee !

Interesting shots renfaireguy ... Skippy
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pyry

Nice job, those plants really look like they mean business.

Reminds me of an old joke about two balloons wafting around and one of them says: "Look out there's a cactussssssssssss."