Unknown Aster

I didn’t bother trying to ID this plant in the greenhouse because I didn’t imagine I would have to use this as my post. Sigh. In the Asteraceae family.

I shot a bird-of-paradise flower (Strelitzia reginae) from an angle not usually seen, but there was *too much* depth-of-field, so when I gray-scaled it, the flower got lost in the background.

I also photographed a “cigar plant” (genus Cuphea) but had a similar problem when gray-scaling for the flash-o-red “theme.”

Today is our good friend Raymond’s birthday and I tried getting a good shot of him, but I was unsuccessful with the point-and-shoot.

So we have this for-now unknown flower from the greenhouse, though I do like the effect of gray-scaling. I swear I am not making this up, but literally all I did was crop it a bit, remove the color and add my name. No messing around with tones, but the petals have a very unusual “look” to them.

Family page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Asteraceae&rank=family

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“Passion tendril”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-02-07
2 years ago (“Haliaeetus leucocephalus”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-02-07
3 years ago (“Wedding Rings”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-02-07

7th February 2014 7th Feb 14