Photo search told me that this is a maple shoot. I was a bit sceptical until I looked at the “butterfly” below the new green. Doesn’t it remind you of a samara (that’s the two wing of a maple fruit)? For Cee’s Flower of the … Continue reading A Maple Shoots
The wings of dragon fly or the maple helicopter? Who is pretending to be whom?
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Midweek Monochrome
I just learned that the special aerodynamic form of a maple seed is called monopteros. I am thorougly puzzled as I only know the monopteros in the English Garden in Munich, a rather imposing structure on a small hill, “a circular colonnade supporting a roof but without any walls”.
But at present, I only have maple monopterosses (monopteri?) to present:
Macro Monday
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