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Pine-needles in silhoutte
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Copyright: Nel Diepstraten (NellyD)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-12-24 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Camera: Canon 350 D |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-01-13 12:32 |
| Viewed: 571 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The day before christmas we were driving for a while and stopped to take some pictures. There were a lot of pinetrees around, and I wanted to make a shot up close of some pineneedles.
So I just did and this is what it looks like :-)
From the internet:
Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authors accept anything from 105 to 125 species.
Pines have four types of leaves. Seedlings begin with
a whorl of 4-20 seed leaves (cotyledons), followed immediately by juvenile leaves on young plants, 2-6 cm long, single, green or often blue-green, and arranged spirally on the shoot. These are replaced after six months to five years by scale leaves, similar to bud scales, small, brown and non-photosynthetic, and arranged like the juvenile leaves; and the adult leaves or needles, green (photosynthetic), bundled in clusters (fascicles) of (1-) 2-5 (-6) needles together, each fascicle produced from a small bud on a dwarf shoot in the axil of a scale leaf. These bud scales often remain on the fascicle as a basal sheath. The needles persist for 1.5-40 years, depending on species. If a shoot is damaged (e.g. eaten by an animal), the needle fascicles just below the damage will generate a bud which can then replace the lost growth. |
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| To jan515: Hi Janusz, | NellyD |
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- jan515
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(17484) - [2007-01-13 18:34]
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This is wonderful picture Nel,Thanks for such pictures that you shown us. Good work and note.
Greeting.
Janusz
