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ez
04-20-2014, 07:08 PM
Welcome

This thread about photos I've created with images and videos I have personally selected from around the world.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Thanks everyone!





Let's begin with a video of a hummingbird drinking nectar from a banana plant.

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ez
04-20-2014, 09:34 PM
This Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) growing in my front yard is a tree my father planted 25 years ago. The white flowers average 12 inches across and have a strong pleasant smell.


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/13954484923_bb91f9ac67_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13954484923)
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trebor
04-21-2014, 07:34 AM
Awesome flower!

ez
04-21-2014, 05:12 PM
Awesome flower!

Thanks

The flowers will live for 3 to 4 days, one flower can fill an entire house with fragrance. :waving:

ez
04-21-2014, 07:58 PM
Mysore

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7370/13982791713_0669870082_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13982791713)

ez
04-21-2014, 09:13 PM
A couple weeks ago I had friends stop by for a barbecue, two coworkers left with Namwah sword suckers. Today I went to work bearing gifts, 1 large Namwah (left side of image) 1 large Manzano and 8 smaller Manzano pups.
At the end of the day I had everyone put their names in a bucket and It was luck that decided who would receive the biggest plants . I've told them about bananas.org and hopefully they will join.


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/13960308582_1d604ecc55_h.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960308582)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/13960340092_c86138fafd_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960340092)

Kat2
04-21-2014, 09:52 PM
And where is the job application? I've been known to fix books--fix them to what is legal and good--not the other fix.

Besides having beautiful pictures you have some very fortunate friends and coworkers; I hope they know that. And I hope they join the forum! This newbie loves lesser newbies--makes me feel darned smart..

crazy banana
04-22-2014, 12:16 AM
Very nice generous gifts.
Lucky co-workers.

ez
04-22-2014, 04:30 PM
Mamey Sapote (Pouteria sapota (http://www.fairchildgarden.org/livingcollections/tropicalfruitprogram/jackfruit/Mamey-Sapote/))

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ez
04-22-2014, 07:15 PM
Bat pollinating banana flowers

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:woohoonaner:

trebor
04-22-2014, 08:54 PM
A couple weeks ago I had friends stop by for a barbecue, two coworkers left with Namwah sword suckers. Today I went to work bearing gifts, 1 large Namwah (left side of image) 1 large Manzano and 8 smaller Manzano pups.
At the end of the day I had everyone put their names in a bucket and It was luck that decided who would receive the biggest plants . I've told them about bananas.org and hopefully they will join.


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/13960308582_1d604ecc55_h.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960308582)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/13960340092_c86138fafd_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960340092)


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Geeze.. Great gifts for your group..Once I gave away a banana... but that was just once :-)
Now your picture is a good one. I see you used the mango as a background. Great choice. I just this week planted a Pickering. It will be years before I see any fruit but I had to have it..

Olafhenny
04-22-2014, 10:00 PM
Welcome

This thread about photos I've created with images and videos I have personally selected from around the world.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Thanks everyone!
Let's begin with a video of a hummingbird drinking nectar from a banana plant.

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FUf-0CMxajE?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="853"></iframe>




Hi Ed,

what a beautiful video you made there! I hope,that in a couple of weeks my workload
will be more manageable and I am looking forward to go through your Flickr site then.
Judging from the samples I have seen so far, that will be a real worthwhile endeavour.

Thank you once more for helping me out time and again with my Flickr problems. :)

Best,
Olaf

bananimal
04-22-2014, 11:47 PM
5
Geeze.. Great gifts for your group..Once I gave away a banana... but that was just once :-)
Now your picture is a good one. I see you used the mango as a background. Great choice. I just this week planted a Pickering. It will be years before I see any fruit but I had to have it..

You are going to love the fruit. I have 2 Pickering now. Is yours grafted? If so you won't have to wait years. Both of mine were bought in 3 gal pots and they fruited the first year.

ez
04-23-2014, 05:19 PM
Hi Ed,

what a beautiful video you made there! I hope,that in a couple of weeks my workload
will be more manageable and I am looking forward to go through your Flickr site then.
Judging from the samples I have seen so far, that will be a real worthwhile endeavour.

Thank you once more for helping me out time and again with my Flickr problems. :)

Best,
Olaf




That's not my video it belongs to tavovalero (http://www.youtube.com/user/tavovalero)

On the top left of the YouTube video screen there's a brief description and on the bottom right hand corner you will see the YouTube symbol if you click on them they will link back to YouTube where you can find more information about each video.

ez
04-23-2014, 05:41 PM
5
Geeze.. Great gifts for your group..Once I gave away a banana... but that was just once :-)
Now your picture is a good one. I see you used the mango as a background. Great choice. I just this week planted a Pickering. It will be years before I see any fruit but I had to have it..


I have a workbench and it's under my Springfels mango (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfels_mango) tree.
In the spring I always have too many pups and the easiest way to get rid of them is to put them in front of the house by the street with a sign after couple of days there all gone.

I've read a lot of good things about Pickering mango (http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/pickering-mango.shtml) excellent choice.

You live nearby if you want a banana plant PM me and I will let you know what's available.:waving:

ez
04-23-2014, 07:51 PM
Mysore

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:08:

ez
04-23-2014, 08:38 PM
Banana plantation near El Guincho on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

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trebor
04-23-2014, 10:04 PM
You are going to love the fruit. I have 2 Pickering now. Is yours grafted? If so you won't have to wait years. Both of mine were bought in 3 gal pots and they fruited the first year.

Yes its grafted. Got it at the rare fruit show . It was calling to me. Im moving some bananas so it will have the best location. I read I can keep it trimed. Also replaced my citrus tree. Got ruby red. Now I'm back to normal

_Mackenzie_
04-24-2014, 05:10 PM
A couple weeks ago I had friends stop by for a barbecue, two coworkers left with Namwah sword suckers. Today I went to work bearing gifts, 1 large Namwah (left side of image) 1 large Manzano and 8 smaller Manzano pups.
At the end of the day I had everyone put their names in a bucket and It was luck that decided who would receive the biggest plants . I've told them about bananas.org and hopefully they will join.


https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/13960308582_1d604ecc55_h.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960308582)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/13960340092_c86138fafd_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/104348596@N08/13960340092)




Thanks Ed

ez
04-24-2014, 08:15 PM
Temple guardians at Wat Phra Keo - Golden Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5132/5563785064_d408f353c9_o.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/5563785064)
by Doug Wheller (https://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/5563785064/in/photostream/)

ez
04-26-2014, 06:25 PM
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by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
04-26-2014, 06:52 PM
Orchid (Orchidaceae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid))

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Photo by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
04-26-2014, 07:22 PM
Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliaceae))

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Photo by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
04-26-2014, 08:19 PM
Praying Hands bananas - Praying Hands Taste Report (http://www.bananas.org/f2/praying-hands-taste-report-18948.html#post228483)

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Photo by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
04-27-2014, 12:10 PM
FHIA-3 Sweetheart

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
04-27-2014, 07:32 PM
Old Man Palm (Coccothrinax crinita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccothrinax_crinita))

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

trebor
04-27-2014, 09:08 PM
Old Man Palm (Coccothrinax crinita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccothrinax_crinita))

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden



That palm is stunning! I was working at a home in Davie Florida . The owner had two of those palms in his back yard. I stood looking at them things for 20 minutes. He was so proud of his plants it made me smile.
Seeing one of them in person was awesome ! Its like meeting someone and a year later you remember all of what you talked about? I know.. Kinda weird way to think about a plant but I just though those things were "KEWAL"
Another interesting picture ! EZ is "Da Man"

ez
04-28-2014, 06:27 PM
Short Hair Old Man Palm (Coccothrinax crinita ssp. brevicrinis - IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/38479/0))

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Photo by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

Hammocked Banana
04-28-2014, 08:36 PM
Temple guardians at Wat Phra Keo - Golden Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

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by Doug Wheller (https://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/5563785064/in/photostream/)



I was there at the end of June 2013. That pic looks much better than mine. Looks like he found the right "guards" to take a pic of. These guys have their crabby faces on!

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Louis xxx
04-29-2014, 10:44 AM
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Thank you for the beautiful banana plant!

ez
04-29-2014, 05:12 PM
Yes - it's a shark in the roof.

by Dave Morris (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davemorris/144525103)

This is The Headington Shark in Oxford, officially its title is untitled 1986, named after the year it was installed. Well of course the battle with the planning authorities lasted for years but in the end the shark was allowed to stay. I couldn't be happier.

The story is a fascinating one and well-told on this (http://www.headington.org.uk/shark/) site. I strongly suggest you have a read of it, but for the time being enjoy this quote from a 1992 article about the shark in The Times:

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ez
04-29-2014, 06:24 PM
Punch to the Face

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by Ninja M. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_ninjamonkey/3565672226)

ez
04-29-2014, 07:09 PM
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by sunjaec (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunjaec/4025820546)

ez
05-01-2014, 04:30 PM
Mysore

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
05-01-2014, 04:58 PM
Got the hat
by Pétur Gauti Valgeirsson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peturgauti/315719253)

A series of a pair of Great Skuas (Stercorarius skua) at Ingólfshöfði (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ing%C3%B3lfsh%C3%B6f%C3%B0i) in SE Iceland attacking and stealing the hat of Siggi, the farmer who takes tourists out there.
No skuas, farmers or hats were injured during the filming of this episode.

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ez
05-01-2014, 08:04 PM
Vampire Cat

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by Lee Gibson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/moofie/)

ez
05-01-2014, 08:53 PM
Riding on my dog

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by fisheye.at (https://www.flickr.com/photos/27052570@N03/)

ez
05-03-2014, 10:03 AM
High Noon (SH-3640 (http://www.promusa.org/SH-3640))

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Colby G
05-03-2014, 01:31 PM
FHIA-3 Sweetheart

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden




Wow... beautiful picture of banana flowers thanks for sharing!

ez
05-03-2014, 10:48 PM
Dragonfruit (Hylocereus undatus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylocereus_undatus))

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ez
05-04-2014, 10:18 AM
Funny traffic signs

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by Ronny Welter (https://www.flickr.com/photos/babycreative/)

ez
05-05-2014, 11:48 AM
Carrion Plant, Starfish Flower (Stapelia grandiflora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapelia_grandiflora))

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Photo by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
05-05-2014, 12:09 PM
Happy Green frog

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by Doug Wheller (https://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/)

ez
05-05-2014, 02:46 PM
Overview of working on a banana farm in Tully, Australia

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ez
05-05-2014, 03:26 PM
North Queensland - Bananas farm work

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ez
05-05-2014, 06:10 PM
Gros Michel

'Gros Michel' is the cultivar that dominated the international banana trade during the first part of the 20th century. In the late 1950s it was replaced with Cavendish cultivars because of its susceptibility to Fusarium wilt, which had landed in Central America in the 1890s. The wild species that contributed to its triploid genome is Musa acuminata, hence the shorthand AAA to describe its genome group. The Gros Michel subgroup is named after this cultivar.

'Gros Michel' entered the historical record in the 1830s when a French planter, Jean Pouyat, noticed the plant growing on the Caribbean island of Martinique3. Locally, it became known as the 'Martinique banana' or the 'Pouyat banana'. It spread through the Caribbean and beyond. By the 1890s, it was cultivated all along the Caribbean coast of Central America. By the turn of the 20th century Gros Michel made up the bilk of of the exports to the US. The cultivar was liked by producers because it didn’t require special care to grow and ship.

The first losses followed soon after Fusarium wilt was reported in Panama and Costa Rica in the 1890s (the strains that cause disease on Gros Michel would later become known as race 1). As the disease spread through Central America, only the availability of vast areas of virgin land prevented an early collapse of the industry. The opening of new land to make up for the abandoned plantations (estimated at more than 40,000 ha) allowed production to keep ahead of the disease. But as uninfected and accessible land became increasingly rare in the the mid-1950s, production costs in Central America soared.

Even though resistant cultivars had been identified as early as 1910, the export industry did not begin to replace the susceptible Gros Michel banana until the late 1950s. The change was motivated by the entry of Ecuador as a major banana exporter in the 1950s. To compete with the cheap Gros Michel from Ecuador, the infested soils of Central America were planted with resistant Cavendish cultivars. Gros Michel has not completely disappeared, however. It is still grown by smallholder farmers, in backyard gardens and mixed crop systems.
(Gros Michel | Promusa - Mobilizing banana science for sustainable livelihoods) (http://www.promusa.org/Gros+Michel)

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
05-06-2014, 08:25 PM
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia))

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Photos by Ed at Mounts Botanical Garden

ez
05-08-2014, 05:29 PM
Mysore

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by Patrik M. Loeff (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bupia/)

ez
05-08-2014, 06:58 PM
Nang Tani

Nang Tani (Thai: นางตานี; "Lady of Tani") is a female spirit of the Thai folklore. According to folk tradition this ghost appears as a young woman that haunts wild banana trees (Musa balbisiana), known as in Thai language as Kluai Tani (กล้วยตานี).

Nang Tani belongs to a type of female ghosts or fairies related to trees known generically as Nang Mai (นางไม้; "Lady of the Wood") in the Thai lore. There is a similar spirit in the Cambodian folklore, as well as in the Lao popular tradition.

Nang Tani may also be called Phi Tani (ผีตานี; "Ghost of Tani") or Phrai Tani (พรายตานี; "Nymph of Tani").

This ghost inhabits the clumps of wild banana trees and is popularly represented as a beautiful young woman wearing a green traditional Thai costume. Most of the time Phi Tani remains hidden, but she comes out of the tree and becomes visible especially on full moon nights. She has a greenish complexion, blending with the tree. She generally appears in a standing position and her feet don't touch the ground, but hover slightly above it. In some modern representations the lower part of her body is represented with an immaterial quality, her waist cloth ending in a kind of wisp emanating from the tree trunk. Nang Tani generally has a gentle disposition and may give food to passing Buddhist monks.

It is considered a bad omen to cut trees from the clump Tani inhabits. Offerings are made to her in the form of sweets, incense sticks and flowers. Often people also tie a length of colored satin cloth around the trunk of the banana tree believed to be haunted by her. The Kluai Tani type of banana trees do not belong to the cultivated varieties. Owing to their connection with ghosts, people prefer not to have them growing near their homes and they are not found within village compounds. However, clumps of this tree are found not far from inhabited areas, often at the outskirts of villages or at the edge of cultivated fields by the roadside. They look very much like average banana trees, but their fruits are not edible. Their leaves are commonly used in Thailand to wrap locally-produced sweets and the inflorescence for the treatment of ulcers in traditional medicine.

Legends of the Thai oral tradition say that this spirit may harm men, especially those who have wronged women, but it is mostly considered benevolent. Amulets featuring Nang Tani are popular and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some people tie lengths of colored silk around the trunks of the banana trees reputed to be haunted by Nang Tani.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nang_Tani

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Nang Tani by Xavier Romero-Frias (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Xavier_Romero-Frias)

ez
05-08-2014, 07:23 PM
Golden White-eye (Cleptornis marchei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_White-eye))

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by Peter (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12023825@N04/)

Olafhenny
05-08-2014, 08:36 PM
Interesting, Ed, thank you

ez
05-08-2014, 11:01 PM
Banana's Whisky

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by Helen ST (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orangebrompton/)

ez
05-08-2014, 11:21 PM
Mongozo Banana Beer

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by Victoria Reay (https://www.flickr.com/photos/vkreay/)

ez
05-09-2014, 05:41 PM
Titan Arums (Amorphophallus titanum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum))

Britain's biggest flower - the Titan arum at the Eden Project

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Giant Corpse Flower bloom - time lapse from two views

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