Gas Plant / Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus'
Painted Daisy / Chrysanthemum coccineum
Canada Violet / Viola canadensis
Mullein / Verbascum thapsus
Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
The beauty of old age
Vibrant colour to warm us all up
Diamond-studded
Cabbage White butterfly
Beetle necklace
Golden
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Time to reveal
Datura
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Sparkling in the sunlight
Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae
Well, hello there
Elegant beauty
Cornflower
Fancy 'Cat's Cradle'
Christmas colours in July
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Lily macro
Ready to trap an unwary insect
Another day closer to spring
Get well, Rachel
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Red-sided Garter Snake scales
Remembering the warmth of summer
Carnivorous Sundew
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Busy little bee
Vibrant
Primula denticulata / Drumstick Primula
One day closer to spring
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Embracing the sun
Dianthus sp.
Poppy art
Springtime colour
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Blink .... and spring will be here
Datura flower?
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Popular with the Aphids
Passing the time
Delicate Damselfly
Tangled
Beauty lasts
Spider on Strawflower
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
Colours made for each other
Hepatica
Hanging on to the old
Catkins - a sure sign of spring
Petunia
Bright and cheery
My first sighting of the season
Balsam Poplar catkins
Delicate Iris
Pink Hellebore
Lest we forget
Deep pink Peony
Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata
Leopard Lacewing / Cethosia cyane
Harebell / Campanula rotundifolia
Peking Cotoneaster / Cotoneaster acutifolia
It tickles!
Elegance
One of my favourite flowers to photograph
Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Stinkhorns from 2012
Yellow False Dandelion seedhead
Halloween colour
Poppy seedpod
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Hibiscus
Crested Wheatgrass / Agropyron cristatum
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Forest treasures ... Pholiota squarrosa
Mountain Ash berries
Longhorn Beetle / Pseudogaurotina cressoni
Flat Topped Coral / Clavariadelphus truncatus
Unidentified flower, Seebe, Alberta - Echium vulga…
Ready to unfurl
Unidentified plant at Cameron Lake, Waterton
Beetle on Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus
A patch of polypore
Tall Larkspur / Delphinium glaucum
European Skipper on Fleabane
Beauty at the centre
Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea
Umbulate Hawkweed
Fungi family
Butterfly eggs
Komodo Dragon
Pearly everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea
For those who have suffered recent loss
Owl butterfly / Caligo sp.
Rose hip species
Puffballs on a tree stump
Showy Aster / Aster conspicuus, rarely seen in blo…
A welcome cluster
Fringed Heartwort / Ricciocarpos natans liverwort,…
Releasing light
Seeds of Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
European Skipper on wild Bergamot
Darner dragonfly sp.
Black Henbane seedpods
Tiger Longwing butterfly / Heliconius hecale
Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus / Parnassia fimbriata
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
Macro puffballs
An ornamental grass
One of few
Bees need our help!
Growing on a fallen leaf
Blue and Brown Clipper / Parthenos sylvia
Like a little flower
Coffee Bean tree / Coffea
Mature Amanita muscaria, I believe?
Indian Clock Vine / Thunbergia mysorensis
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Brugmansia or Datura?
Photographed this beautiful tropical flower in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo, on 21 September 2015. I'm not sure if it is Brugmansia or the closely related Datura, though. After reading the following from Wikipedia, I think this has to be Datura. I photographed one of the fruits from this plant and it did have softly rounded spines on it. All species of Datura are POISONOUS, especially their seeds and flowers.
"Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are known as angel's trumpets, sometimes sharing that name with the closely related genus Brugmansia, and commonly known as daturas. They are also sometimes called moonflowers, one of several plant species to be so. Its precise and natural distribution is uncertain, owing to its extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe. Its distribution within the Americas and North Africa, however, is most likely restricted to the United States and Mexico in North America, and Tunisia in Africa, where the highest species diversity occurs." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura
"Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name of angel's trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus Datura. Brugmansia are woody trees or shrubs, with pendulous, not erect, flowers, that have no spines on their fruit. Datura species are herbaceous bushes with erect (not pendulous) flowers, and most have spines on their fruit. All seven species are listed as Extinct in the Wild by the IUCN Red List." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia
"Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are known as angel's trumpets, sometimes sharing that name with the closely related genus Brugmansia, and commonly known as daturas. They are also sometimes called moonflowers, one of several plant species to be so. Its precise and natural distribution is uncertain, owing to its extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe. Its distribution within the Americas and North Africa, however, is most likely restricted to the United States and Mexico in North America, and Tunisia in Africa, where the highest species diversity occurs." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura
"Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name of angel's trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus Datura. Brugmansia are woody trees or shrubs, with pendulous, not erect, flowers, that have no spines on their fruit. Datura species are herbaceous bushes with erect (not pendulous) flowers, and most have spines on their fruit. All seven species are listed as Extinct in the Wild by the IUCN Red List." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia
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