Bird of paradise [SOOC]

First day of final exams, but it’s my first day having no surviving parents and that’s what’s left me a bit “on edge”, a bit in a “funk” and a bit “out of sorts”…

I have been trying to photograph one of these Strelitzia reginae flowers (family Strelitziaceae) in the greenhouse and it’s been a bit difficult until I realized that it’s not necessarily, or always, the entire structure or “look” of an entire bloom, so I’ve gotten a bit closer in this shot.

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Strelitzia_reginae&rank=binomial

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

A year ago (“Carried on the plane…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-12-10

[Chris]

Beautiful colors!

[Rick Schies]

It is a strange kind of feeling Thom, and it does take a while to really settle in. The flower is really nice with its mix of colors

[elaine]

Amazing what you find when you really look close!!

[Vicki Dixon]

it looks as if it is going to just take off!