I coccinea

These are picture of I coccinea

Here is a side view.

Super sized 6 megs.

http://www.nerii.org/Ron/I%20coccinea-flowerb-4-9-7.jpg

What a pretty flower and great photo!

Joseph

Thanks!

The flowers are really tiny .. about the size of quamoclit.

X

Nice X

Love the showy color.

They are fiery! In looking at other pictures of I coccinea, the yellow throat is more predominant than this one.

X

This message was edited Apr 10, 2007 4:17 PM

Awesome X!!! Love that little insert! How did you do it?

Is it blooming right now?

Thanks!

That particular flower bloomed yesterday. There are a few other buds on it.

As to how i did the insert, it's two separate pictures. The closeup was another picture of the same flower in which the primary focus was on the stamens and pistil rather than the petals. I cropped that part and copied it into the primary picture of the whole flower.

When I shoot a picture of a flower I usually shoot three separate ones, the focus of the first one is general for the whole flower and any subsequent ones are focused for specific details, like stamen & pistol, sepals etc. Because of the short depth of field in macro photography, you kind of have to choose what you want in focus.

X

Beautiful flower X.

Joanne

Wow, those photos are really good. My puter keeps going off and on so hopfully it doesn't go down before I post this..

Great flowers, I did not used to like this particular flower, but now these pictures have changed my mind. I'm growing a couple for Ron. How long did this one take to bloom from date of sowing? I can hardly wait for a bloom here.. can you tell?

A.

That is very cool looking. I really like it!

quamoclit----What the heck. I had to look it up.

Yes,actually looking something up is a healthy exercise that helps to sharpen your ability to be independant,perform your own supplemental informational searches and helps to prevent certain faculties from premature atrophy...

I fully support regular healthy physical and mental exercise...

TTY,...

Ron

Gourd, this one took a year .. but it had a hard start in life and was thought to be something else. Hopefully yours won't take a year.

Here are some pictures comparing coccinea to quamoclit. Until I looked at it closely I though my old quamoclit plant had produced a volunteer since the cocinea was in the same place it was. On closer inspection they are very different.

X

Top view. From this angle, on the quamoclit its hard to distinguish the stamen from the pistil. The reason is because the pollen had just been released from the anther making them fluffy and the angle of the shot was head on.

X

This message was edited Apr 11, 2007 9:51 AM

Ipomoea hederifolia and Ipomoea coccinea can look so(!) very similar that I usually wait until the seedpods are almost mature to provide a definitive ID...

When Ipomoea coccinea and Ipomoea quamoclit which are 2 different species hybridized they formed the new species Ipomoea sloteri here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/4896/

X - The flower color on the Ipomoea coccinea(?) you are showing looks almost like a rich salmon or coral rather than a 'red'...what do you think(?)...

TTY,...

Ron

That's the color my camera saw .. no adjustments were made.

X

Oh how I love your photos.. I learn so much from you guys, my camera is looking real old to me just about now..lol
A.