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Porcupine-ish foo foo. by maggie2
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Porcupine-ish foo foo.

The odder the plant, the happier I am. What the heck is this thing? It looks so delicate, but had these spikey things all over it, even on the stem. I wanted to pick one to bring home, but I was afraid of it. :-)
17th July 2011 17th Jul 11

Margaret Tryon

@maggie2
I love photography and painting. I'm not great at either, but I'm learning and enjoy both. Any type of art interests me. I use my...
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Kerri
That's one interesting plant
July 17th, 2011  
Trina P Holub
Wow, I thought it was a fancy candle from the thumbnail! What a cool plant! Nice find!
July 17th, 2011  
Rick Schies
Nature's candle.
July 17th, 2011  
Cricket Hackmann
It definitely looks like it could protect itself! :-)
July 17th, 2011  
Rach_who
How can something so pretty look so dangerous at the same time? Wonderful shot of this fabulous looking flower.
July 17th, 2011  
Courtney
Interesting plant. I have never seen one like this before. It's so neat
July 17th, 2011  
Veronica Brown
Very cool shot! Love the composition!
July 17th, 2011  
Krista
Odd plant, cool shot.
July 17th, 2011  
Susan
This is wild & don't have a clue what it is.
July 17th, 2011  
Cheryl
Awesome shot-love the squareness and the curly leaf tendral thing-ee-s----Cool shot of whatever it tiz
July 17th, 2011  
Angie Vega ☮♥ シ
one cool find that makes an interesting subject...love the lighting and all the details you captured
July 17th, 2011  
Jen Dee
Beautiful!
July 17th, 2011  
Catherine Ross
Great capture. Just guessing, but it looks like some variety of thistle.
July 17th, 2011  
marg
Day of the Triffids? Surely does look spacey and alien.
July 17th, 2011  
Anne ❀ ace
Beautiful foo foo! Awesome detail!
July 17th, 2011  
Toni :)
wow, that is one weirdly beautiful flower, does look a bit thistle like on top, nice capture, I agree with @murnane does look like a triffid too :)
July 17th, 2011  
Annie
such a cool shot!
July 17th, 2011  
Agnes Zonnestraaltje
wow, where did you find this, it is really a good shot
July 17th, 2011  
jerry plume ace
Crazy looking plant! Great capture!
July 17th, 2011  
Jennifer C
interesting plant, great capture!!
July 17th, 2011  
Dragonfly Explorer ( Rhoiz )
cool shot, beautiful, love the DOF and the position of the subject.
July 17th, 2011  
alia_801
It looks like it's got a face and arms and is waffling on about something! Great capture :)
July 17th, 2011  
Shirley Chetwynd
It must have looked gorgeous before it lost it's flowers.
July 17th, 2011  
simon peter thorne
nice capture
July 17th, 2011  
petra
wow beautiful!
July 17th, 2011  
Geertje K.
What a cool and interesting plant, love it! Cool details!
July 17th, 2011  
Alta D©
wow! awesome detail on this gorgeous flower!
July 17th, 2011  
trude
Very pretty foo-foo, love the colour and detail:)
July 17th, 2011  
Tania L
gorgeous Margaret, it looks like art.
July 17th, 2011  
elkehochban
Awesome foo foo! Wonder if its a Teasle? I've only ever seen them without any flowers.
July 17th, 2011  
Sheila
Love the composition!! I have no clue what that is!! Very cool, whatever it is!
July 17th, 2011  
Diana Horn
Very interesting plant. Great find and pic.
July 17th, 2011  
Vicki K
very nice dof and clarity have no idea what it is but it sure is interesting.
July 17th, 2011  
Beth
Ha, very cool find. Wonderful textures and composition
July 17th, 2011  
Jann
Makes for a very interesting photo- nice
July 17th, 2011  
K J Buehl
Gorgeous Capture! Love the colors and detail. wonderful lighting! What it is - is a Teasel - has small lavender flowers clustered in an egg-shaped, thistle-like spike on a prickly stem. Mostly found in fields and roadsides, brought over from Europe. But a foo foo is great, too, Maggie!
July 17th, 2011  
Denise
Very cool detail. Love the focus.
July 17th, 2011  
Netkonnexion ace
Love the detail and feel of this.
July 17th, 2011  
robinwarner
i totally agree with you about that...it is fun to photograph the unique...well done
July 17th, 2011  
Charlene Barker
That is quite a fascinating foo foo and I so love its colors. Nice shot Margaret.
July 17th, 2011  
Judith Greenwood ace
Beautiful - it's a teasel - they are looking great this year - I've never noticed them in flower before but I've never been doing 365 before either....
July 17th, 2011  
Carol Olejnik
Magz... it is so kewl that only the middle shed its purple.. and sweet love.. I love that curly que leave.. nice shot Magz!!!
July 17th, 2011  
Theresa
Cool, and pretty too!
July 17th, 2011  
FaerieMoon
No hugs for this foo foo, what an interesting flower!
July 17th, 2011  
Pyrrhula
amezing beautiful capture of that flower
July 17th, 2011  
paula goff
very pretty.....whatever it is:)
July 17th, 2011  
bernadette mcelligott
very unusual. nice composition.
July 17th, 2011  
Emer Hyland
very interesting plant
July 17th, 2011  
Kathryn Marshall
Interesting and pretty shot. The flower has a grace of its own.
July 17th, 2011  
Amy Brown
Lovely Teasel - ours are much darker than this. When i was little you used to get them at fetes, dressed as hedgehogs in mob caps!
July 17th, 2011  
Andy McAvoy
Great composition and interesting plant.
July 17th, 2011  
cglist
Wonderful colors and textures!
July 17th, 2011  
Melanie K
Sculptural!
July 18th, 2011  
Danny Davies
Beautiful composition, lovely photograph of the teasel plant, which was used for carding wool I believe. 19th century and before.
July 18th, 2011  
Mickey Anderson ace
Great shot of the Teasel !!!
July 18th, 2011  
Mickey Anderson ace
great DOF !!!
July 18th, 2011  
Margaret Tryon
@dannydavies @brillomick I'm going to look this up. Danny how interesting to know what they did with it. I'll check it out.
July 18th, 2011  
Penny Milner
Amazing-love the DOF
July 18th, 2011  
Caroline ace
How artistic... Wonderful shot. Don't be scared! ;)
July 18th, 2011  
Kd Wallis
Reminds me of what is left of a bloom on a thistle weed/plant. Great shot!!
July 18th, 2011  
molizard
Love it's wispy leaves & corn cob appearance! well depicted!
July 18th, 2011  
mihaela oprisan
great shot!
July 18th, 2011  
Helene ace
beautiful, this is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsacus_fullonum
gorgeous but... I brang one in the garden last year anf they're all other... very invasive, be carefull!
July 18th, 2011  
Karen Sylvia
Oh I can't identify this foo-foo, but it is really cool looking.
July 18th, 2011  
Margaret Tryon
@parisouailleurs Thank you Helene for this information.
July 18th, 2011  
Alecio
What an interesting flower
July 18th, 2011  
Ninjina (@marinda)
almost looks like a tea pot.
July 18th, 2011  
GINA
Maggie, this is fabulous, have no idea what it is either but love it...
July 18th, 2011  
Bugik
Whoa, what a great find. Nice shot!
July 18th, 2011  
Tabbycat
@rach_who You know, when you SCUBA dive, you learn that the brighter and prettier the fish/coral, the more poisonous it probably is!!

Margaret, you make me laugh so much!! This looks great magnified, BTW! The regularity of that spikiness is really quite mathematical!
July 18th, 2011  
Margaret Tryon
@tabbycat Tabitha, you're right. There is a mathematical sequence to this plant. That just makes it scarier to me. :-)
July 19th, 2011  
Pamela Mandeville
I've never seen anything like this before. It's amazing! And I love the composition of the photo.
July 19th, 2011  
Tabbycat
@maggie2 LOL!
July 19th, 2011  
Melissa
fascinating plant! i really like the curves of the, um, curvy green things on the bottom.
July 20th, 2011  
Lakshmi
What Melissa said :-)
July 20th, 2011  
Ginger Sanders
That is a great flower thingy.
July 21st, 2011  
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