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What Plant Is This?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4844614791_8c703e3de8_b.jpg To make it more of a challenge, this is during its yearly period without fruit nor flower. I reserve the photos of the flowering and fruiting ones for paying customers. Hints: The fruits look like miniature bananas, and it's among the rarest (but not the rarest) of its kind in the world. Easily identified by the small elongated whitish dots. I'd show you the flowers of THE rarest of its kind in the world, but none of you have enough money for that. I thought that maybe you pathetically hopeless desk-jockeys who have never stepped outside of your mommies' basements would like a glimpse of what you can photograph when you get days away from any pavement. If you pretend-photographer morons behave, you might even get to see some images I have of big-horn sheep in the remote mountains of The Bob Marshall Wilderness (the largest area of contiguous wilderness left in the Lower-48). Or maybe a pronghorn hiding in some plains grasses. Though I'm quite fond of the photo I took of a young moose on the near bank of a stream during a heavy snow in Quetico Nat. Forest, the snowflakes adhering to its new antlers. Moron trolls miss out on seeing so much, just because ... well, because they are morons. LOL! |
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What Plant Is This?
It looks like the air roots of an orchid plant.
Regards "LOL!" wrote in message ... http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4844614791_8c703e3de8_b.jpg To make it more of a challenge, this is during its yearly period without fruit nor flower. I reserve the photos of the flowering and fruiting ones for paying customers. Hints: The fruits look like miniature bananas, and it's among the rarest (but not the rarest) of its kind in the world. Easily identified by the small elongated whitish dots. I'd show you the flowers of THE rarest of its kind in the world, but none of you have enough money for that. I thought that maybe you pathetically hopeless desk-jockeys who have never stepped outside of your mommies' basements would like a glimpse of what you can photograph when you get days away from any pavement. If you pretend-photographer morons behave, you might even get to see some images I have of big-horn sheep in the remote mountains of The Bob Marshall Wilderness (the largest area of contiguous wilderness left in the Lower-48). Or maybe a pronghorn hiding in some plains grasses. Though I'm quite fond of the photo I took of a young moose on the near bank of a stream during a heavy snow in Quetico Nat. Forest, the snowflakes adhering to its new antlers. Moron trolls miss out on seeing so much, just because ... well, because they are morons. LOL! |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:10:40 -0700, "Chuck" wrote:
It looks like the air roots of an orchid plant. More clues: Other than the missing fruit or flower, that is the whole plant. It never has leaves. Regards "LOL!" wrote in message .. . http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4844614791_8c703e3de8_b.jpg To make it more of a challenge, this is during its yearly period without fruit nor flower. I reserve the photos of the flowering and fruiting ones for paying customers. Hints: The fruits look like miniature bananas, and it's among the rarest (but not the rarest) of its kind in the world. Easily identified by the small elongated whitish dots. I'd show you the flowers of THE rarest of its kind in the world, but none of you have enough money for that. I thought that maybe you pathetically hopeless desk-jockeys who have never stepped outside of your mommies' basements would like a glimpse of what you can photograph when you get days away from any pavement. If you pretend-photographer morons behave, you might even get to see some images I have of big-horn sheep in the remote mountains of The Bob Marshall Wilderness (the largest area of contiguous wilderness left in the Lower-48). Or maybe a pronghorn hiding in some plains grasses. Though I'm quite fond of the photo I took of a young moose on the near bank of a stream during a heavy snow in Quetico Nat. Forest, the snowflakes adhering to its new antlers. Moron trolls miss out on seeing so much, just because ... well, because they are morons. LOL! |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:13 -0500, LOL! wrote:
It never has leaves. Nor do you, more the pity. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:46:39 -0400, tony cooper
wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:13 -0500, LOL! wrote: It never has leaves. Nor do you, more the pity. Always off topic, always trolling for attention. Do you realize just how ****ingly transparent you are as an AUTHENTIC TROLL? Thanks for proving it yet again, and again, and again. LOL! |
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What Plant Is This?
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:25:23 -0700 (PDT), DanP wrote:
On Jul 31, 2:08*am, LOL! wrote: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4844614791_8c703e3de8_b.jpg Try sci.bio.botany, this is a SLR newsgroup. DanP Awww... the poor little pretend-photographer DSLR-TROLL can't even figure out what plants it might photograph one day. Boo hoo. Now that's a laugh. Imagine one of these armchair-photographer trolls actually schlepping through chest-deep gator-infested swamp-waters for two days to find these plants. (Hint: Have a good walking-stick and keep prodding the murky waters in front and to each side of you. We had a few close-calls with those that like to defend their turf.) LOL! |
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:25:23 -0700 (PDT), DanP wrote:
On Jul 31, 2:08*am, LOL! wrote: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/4844614791_8c703e3de8_b.jpg Try sci.bio.botany, this is a SLR newsgroup. DanP Awww... the poor little pretend-photographer DSLR-TROLL can't even figure out what plants it might photograph one day. Boo hoo. Now that's a laugh. Imagine one of these armchair-photographer trolls actually schlepping through chest-deep gator-infested swamp-waters for two days to find these plants. (Hint: Have a good walking-stick and keep prodding the murky waters in front and to each side of you. We had a few close-calls with those that like to defend their turf.) LOL! |
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:13 -0500, LOL! wrote:
: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:10:40 -0700, "Chuck" wrote: : : It looks like the air roots of an orchid plant. : : More clues: Other than the missing fruit or flower, that is the whole : plant. It never has leaves. One possibility is that the tentacles themselves serve as leaves. Their greenish cast could suggest that that's the case. I guess the more obvious possibility is that it's an outright parasite, living off the tree. You said you found it in a gator-infested swamp, and such places are a well-known preserve of parasitic plants. Bob |
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:14:33 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:26:13 -0500, LOL! wrote: : On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:10:40 -0700, "Chuck" wrote: : : It looks like the air roots of an orchid plant. : : More clues: Other than the missing fruit or flower, that is the whole : plant. It never has leaves. One possibility is that the tentacles themselves serve as leaves. Their greenish cast could suggest that that's the case. Correct. I guess the more obvious possibility is that it's an outright parasite, living off the tree. Wrong. There is evidence to suggest that these kinds of plants are in a symbiotic type of relationship. This is why it is difficult, if not nearly impossible, to replicate them in greenhouse conditions. Without the exact same growing conditions: i.e. host-plant, nematodes & micro-fungi embedded in those host plants, micro-climate (they can only be found within a short distance above the water temperature in which they reside), etc., they cannot flourish and grow. It is an extremely delicate balance of many life-forms and micro-climate environment, and is precisely why they are so rare. You said you found it in a gator-infested swamp, and such places are a well-known preserve of parasitic plants. True, but that is not always the case. Bob I know what this plant is because I have the full fruiting and blossoming images as well. I'm just wondering if any of the "oh so educated and (in)experienced role-playing pretend-photographers" of these newsgroups might know. The hints and information provided by myself so far are probably not found on the net through Google searches (which is why they re failing to provide a quick and direct answer). Revealing, without any uncertainty, just who ARE the role-playing armchair photographer trolls. I never do one thing when I can accomplish 20 tasks with the same effort. This could also be the reason I am partial to superzoom cameras these days. LOL! |
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