Pink Bloom in Sun
by Christina Verdgeline
Title
Pink Bloom in Sun
Artist
Christina Verdgeline
Medium
Photograph - Macro Photograph
Description
In the lazy,hazy,crazy days of summer, I had to pause and photograph this mophead hydrangea, bough bending with the weight of its clump of flower blossoms. The sun delicately filtering through the pink and white petals. Everything stood still for a moment. The pastel-like dreamy background is a pond reflecting sunlight and greenery... Brought a smile to my face the rest of the day!
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Wikipedia: Hydrangea macrophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to Japan. It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 2.5 m (8 ft) broad with large heads of pink or blue flowers in summer and autumn.[1] Common names include bigleaf hydrangea, French hydrangea, lacecap hydrangea, mophead hydrangea,penny mac and hortensia. It is widely cultivated in many parts of the world in many climates.
The inflorescence of Hydrangea macrophylla is a corymb, with all flowers placed in a plane or a hemisphere or even a whole sphere in cultivated forms. Two distinct types of flowers can be identified: central non-ornamental fertile flowers and peripheral ornamental flowers, usually described as "sterile". A study of several cultivars showed that all the flowers were fertile but the non-ornamental flowers were pentamers while the decorative flowers were tetramers. The four sepals of decorative flowers have colors ranging from pale pink to red fuchsia purple to blue. The non-decorative flowers have five small greenish sepals and five small petals. Flowering lasts from early summer to early winter. The fruit is a subglobose capsule.
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February 16th, 2016
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