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Monet’s brushstrokes

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Van Gogh's Sunflowers

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Chen Zishan aka 陈紫珊 aka Zishan Chen (Chinese, China) - Consideration

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Benjamin J. Shamback (American, b. 1974)

Day Lily Bouquet in Footed Glass, 2016

Oil on copper

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some california wildflowers!

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This weeks microscopy features Ranunculus victoriensis, aka the Victorian buttercup. This species is a Victorian endemic found on the Bogong High Plains, and is listed as Endangered. They have very typical buttercup flowers that are a bright and glossy yellow. They have numerous stamen arranged circularly around a head of numerous carpels.

And here's a closeup of those carpels. The tip of the stigma has a lot of texture to it!

And now the anthers, absolutely covered in pollen. Pollen of this species (maybe all Ranunculus, I'm not sure) is spherical and pretty smooth.

And a cheeky cross-section, so that you can see how each carpel is free from one another. :) Plus the big ovule inside that'll go on to become a seed!

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Today's Ikebana - Spring Flush

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Texas toadflax (Nuttallanthus texanus), a newcomer this year (that is, I don’t remember seeing it last year).

It’s a member of the veronica family, so it’s related to foxglove and snapdragons. It does look a lot like the wild Nuttall’s snapdragon with a similar shape and color.

It appears across the western U.S.