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Day 3 of botanical snuggles reveal, we have some more rare flowers, today’s featured flowers: Mastigostyla and Trichodesma zeylanica ⭐️

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February 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM Everybody can reply
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Yuan-Yuan (Chrissie) Chen, 林元元
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Lenten-Rose flowers in full bloom

Perpetual Nature Journal – Week of Feb 12-18, Watercolor Painting
Lenten-Rose (Helleborus orientalis) I have fallen in love with the Lenten-Rose flowers since I spotted them last year in one of my favorite gardens in my neighborhood. Once again, I saw the flowers blooming along the outside edge of the garden. Then, I sneaked into the inside garden to take photos of a common hazel plant and suddenly noticed there were several shrubs of Lenten-Rose flowers growing below the hazel plant. I thought they looked very nice when they were kind of tangled together. The flowers inside the garden were even more beautiful, so I tried hard to squat down so that I could take photos of the flowers’ faces. It was too hard to choose which flowers I liked because they were all smiling at me. One of these days, I should plant some in my garden! Although I painted the Lenten-Rose flowers before, I learned or refreshed a few facts. 1. All parts of the Lenten-Rose are poisonous. (Wikipedia) 2. What appear to be the colored petals are really sepals. “Five petal-like sepals (a modified calyx) surround a ring of small, yellowish-green, tubular, nectaries in an open, bell shape. The nectaries are actually the petals modified to hold nectar. Inside the ring of petals there are numerous stamens and several pistils. After the flower is pollinated the petals and stamens fall off but the sepals do not drop, remaining on the plant for 1-2 months or more (probably contributing to seed development).” (Source: https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/lenten-rose-helleborus-xhybridus/) P.S. I just realized that the scanner didn’t capture the true colors of the sepals. I painted with Daniel Smith’s Carbazole Violet and Quinacridone Red, but the sepals look more pink than purple. #nature #naturelovers #naturejournaling #naturephotography #perpetualjournal #perpetualnaturejournal #watercolor #watercolorpainting #danielsmithwatercolors #strathmoremixedmedia #wildwonderconference #wildwonder #wildwonderfoundation #laracallgastinger #lgperpetualjournal #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #lgperpetualjournaling #lentenrose #helleborus #botanicalflowers
February 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM Everybody can reply
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