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Gerbera of my garden


Gerbera of my garden
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Copyright: pankaj bajpai (pankajbajpai) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 146 W: 15 N: 99] (797)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-11-12
Categories: Nature
Exposure: f/3.0, 1/450 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-11-12 8:42
Viewed: 558
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Gerbera, is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.

It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa, Madagascar, and tropical Asia. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.


Yellow gerberas floating in waterGerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, 2-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, white, pink or red colors. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.

Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The domesticated cultivars are mostly a result of a cross between Gerbera jamesonii and another South African species Gerbera viridifolia. The cross is known as Gerbera hybrida. Thousands of cultivars exist. They vary greatly in shape and size. Colours include white, yellow, orange, red, and pink. The centre of the flower is sometimes black. Often the same flower can have petals of several different colours.

Gerbera is commercially important. It is the fifth most important cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation.
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Agradables colores los de estas flores. Muy buenos detalles.
Saludos, JL.

Hi Pankaj,
Lovely presentation of the two gerberas. Colors, contrast and sharpness are top notch. Best regards. Danilo

Bon contraste belle présentation de gerberas
bravo

jojo

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  • lucbus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2108 W: 92 N: 1851] (10261)
  • [2006-12-07 6:48]

Hi Pankaj,
These are very beautiful flowers and I like how you've capture them with the nice lighting, the DOF and the diagonal in the composition. Well done.
Luc

A great well lit and indeed very colourful macro Pankaj. Great job in composing this one. The two flowers are contrasting each other beautifully. The frame has been well set and planned.

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