Thursday, 22 January 2015

FRIDAY GREENS #4 - ARUM BERRIES

Welcome to this new meme active every Friday!
The theme is "Friday Greens" and you can post images, art, photos where the predominant colour is GREEN!

 GREEN is the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds.

Here are some Arum seedheads. Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the Araceae family. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as Turkey and Caucasus. It is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl and jack in the pulpit. The name "lords-and-ladies" and other gender related names refer to the plant's likeness to male and female genitalia symbolising copulation.

In Summer, the lower ring of (female) flowers deep in the spadix of the inflorescence form a cluster of green berries, which in Autumn turn bright red. These remain after the spathe and other leaves have withered away. These attractive red to orange berries are extremely poisonous!
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8 comments:

  1. Unknown23 January 2015 at 00:06

    Gorgeous Green Shot

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  2. Gemma Wiseman23 January 2015 at 00:39

    Incredible range of names for one plant. The berry clusters look like a skinny green pineapples.

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  3. Jutta23 January 2015 at 01:37

    A beautiful photo and a gorgeous green.

    Greetings

    Jutta

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  4. Anonymous23 January 2015 at 02:52

    Hello Nick,
    it is natural of course that so wonderful berries are toxic above all if they shine then later pink or red!
    An especially fine photo of the immature berries!
    I wish you a nice and green friday,
    moni

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    http://www.reflexionblog.de

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  5. Arti23 January 2015 at 03:37

    I never took a photo of these green berries, only when they changed their colour to red, what a pitty. Your photo looks so beautiful.

    Have a nice weekend
    Arti

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  6. joanna uk23 January 2015 at 06:08

    hiya Nick, I'm enjoying the green meme. Have been planning to do this for years.
    Another thing about the colour green is the # number which is rather nice: #00FF00

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    1. joanna uk23 January 2015 at 06:11

      and another thing...
      the leaves in the top right hand corner of your picture, is that Parthenocissus henryana?
      Was this taken in your garden?
      BTW, are you involved with the Aus Open? Do you go to see them?

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  7. Sara Chapman23 January 2015 at 20:25

    I can see why you needed a new, green, meme. Neato!

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