Allium species; black background; botany; bulb; close up; culinary; cultivar; cultivated; edible; environment; flora; garden; gardening; home grown; onion; roots; summer; young; white; raho; England.; Close up of a Fresh home grown young garden onion. Onions have various medicinal properties.
Botany; bud; close up; corymb; Crataegus monogyna; environment; flora; flower; Hawthorn; shrub; small tree; structure; raho; England.; Flowers of the Common Hawthorn; Crataegus monogyna.
Botany; ecology; environment; flora; flower; habitat; leaf; Mediterranean; support; uncultivated; vine; raho; Gibraltar. Flowers of the Pipe Vine; Aristolochia baetica.
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Pipe Vine Digital scan of a 35mm transparency. Note: Plants in the genus Aristolochia used in traditional Chinese medicine but contains toxic aristolochic acid which can cause kidney damage.
Botany; ecology; environment; field; flora; flower; habitat; landscape; Mediterranean; nature; maquis; rock; spring; sunny; sunshine; uncultivated; vegetation, wildflowers; raho; Gibraltar. View from the south end of the Rock of Gibraltar
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Field of Wild Flowers at the southern end of the Rock of Gibraltar. This is part of the maquis. Digital scan of a 35mm transparency.
Botany; ecology; environment; field; flora; flower; habitat; landscape; Mediterranean; nature; maquis; rock; spring; sunny; sunshine; uncultivated; vegetation, wildflowers; raho; Gibraltar. View from the south end of the Rock of Gibraltar
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Field of Wild Flowers at the southern end of the Rock of Gibraltar. This is part of the maquis. Digital scan of a 35mm transparency.
Black Spot; botany; close up; Diplocarpon rosae; disease; ecology; environment; flora; fungus; garden; gardening; horticulture; infected; leaf; morning; pattern; rose; spring; structure; vein; water droplets; raho; England. Black Spot (Diplocarpon rosae) on leaf of a rose bush
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Black Spot (Diplocarpon rosae) on leaf of a rose bush
The Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary is the only remaining mangrove woodland in Barbados.It is a resting place for migratory birds traveling the Caribbean flyway between North and South America. The swamp was originally a marsh and mangrove ecosystem connected to the sea as well as to the St. Lawrence swamp and surrounding wetlands. The water is dark in colour.
Extreme close up of the centre of a Stapelia variegata Flower. The smell emanating from the flower can at best be described as "fetid". Digital scan of a 35mm transparency.
Above eye level, Artocarpus altilis; botany, Breadfruit; Caribbean; ecology, environment, edible; flora, food; fruit, green; heavy; leaves; outdoors, staple food, tropical; tropics; vegetable; warm, raho; Barbados, West Indies. It is also known as Artocarpus incisa. Related species: Artocarpus camansi, Breadnut. Digital scan of original photograph.
Botany; close up; cultivar; ecology; environment; flora; flower; green background; hybrid; gardening; indoors; macro; purple; water droplets; raho; Hampshire; England
Above eye level, Artocarpus altilis; botany, Breadfruit; Caribbean; ecology, environment, edible; flora, food; fruit, green; heavy; leaves; male flowers, outdoors, staple food, tropical; tropics; vegetable; warm, raho; Barbados, West Indies. It is also known as Artocarpus incisa. Related species: Artocarpus camansi, Breadnut. Digital scan of original photograph.