Castor Oil Flower

These flower buds belongs to the Castor Oil Plant.

[Kathryn Marshall]

Beautiful shot. Great focus. Unique way to show the castor oil plant. A fav.

[Françoise]

Lovely shot Tony

[Sharon Lee]

lovely contrast Tony

[David]

Nicely detailed image

[Gena Pegg]

Great shot! Is this the actual bloom or the buds? And is it in your garden? Castor Oil, huh? Not my favorite....childhood memories.....but a really lovely capture of the plant!!! So interesting to see it!

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Lovely focus and capture.

[Tricia O'Donnell]

cool capture they look like little cotton buds on a stick

[mervyn hobbs]

Lovely again never seen this before.

[Vicki Dixon]

vary pretty. love the background for it

[Tina Cook]

Didn't know there was a castor oil plant!

[Graham Thresher]

A beautiful composition. Fav

[Denise]

How interesting.

[Carole Imes]

Brings back early childhood memories. Never associated that horrible stuff with a plant....LOL! Perfect shot, Tony!

[Custodia Baptista]

Beautiful

[carol white]

Beautifully captured,great detail!!FAV!!

[Therese]

beautiful capture!

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@kiwiflora Thank you Francoise.

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@monkeykid Thank you Therese.

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@carolmw Thank you very much Carol and thank you for the Fav.

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@custodiabaptista Thank you Custodia.

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@cimes1 Thank you Carole.

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@denisedaly Thank you Denise.

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@thresheg Thank you very much Graham and thank you for the Fav.

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@tinac1 Thank you Tina.

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@vickisfotos Thank you Vicki.

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@carwyn3 Thank you Mervyn.

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@triciaodonnell Thank you Tricia.

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@ziggy77 Thank you Jo.

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@eyesmile Thank you Gena, yes its in my Garden and these are the buds of the flowers, they are very small flowers like pin heads.

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@killeen Thank you David.

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@sugarmuser Thank you Sharon.

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@daisy Thank you Kathryn and thank you very much for the Fav.

[Gayanne Campbell]

Fascinating plant and wonderful focus Tony! The detail is great.

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@zenna Thank you Gayanne.

[Christine]

Good capture

[Mr. Spock]

Wonderful macro shot, Tony, it looks really good with the b;lack background!

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@chris17 Thank you Christine.

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@spock Thank you David.

[Maggiemae]

Nice POV and composition. I presume it doesn't have a scent?

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@maggiemae Thank you Maggie, about the smell I have never been able to smell things so I don't no, all the beautiful flowers I grow and I can not smell them.

[Maggiemae]

@tonygig oh that is such a shame! My sister in law has the same problem but she still asks people what a dish tastes like or a smell, etc!

[Cheri]

Very cool

[Susan]

Great capture.. like the dof and focus!

[Linda]

Great shot.

[Sandy]

I never knew there was a castor oil plant.

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@maggiemae @linc @pandora @tommiel @skstein

Thank you very much for all your wonderful comments.

[Carol Norman]

Beautiful composition! Very nice.

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@carolnorman Thank you Carol.

[Kim]

Stunning composition!

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@genealogygenie Thank you very much Kim