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Stinging nettle


Stinging nettle
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Copyright: Igor Germanovic (germma) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1057 W: 38 N: 1052] (9750)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-26
Categories: Daily Life, Nature, Event, Decisive Moment, Macro
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-27 0:45
Viewed: 209
Points: 30
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Urtica
Species: U. dioica

The stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is a herbaceous flowering plant, native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America, and is the best known member of the nettle genus Urtica. The plants have stinging hairs (trichomes), whose tips come off when touched, transforming the hair into a needle that will inject a cocktail of irritants: acetylcholine, histamine, 5-HT and possibly formic acid. This mix of poisons cause a sting or paresthesia from which the species derives its common name, as well as the colloquial name "7 minute stitch", burn nettle, burn weed, and burn hazel.
Stinging nettles are a dioecious herbaceous perennial, growing to 1-2 m tall in the summer and dying down to the ground in winter. It has very distinctively yellow, widely spreading roots. The soft green leaves are 3-15 cm long, with a strongly serrated margin, a cordate base and an acuminate tip.
Stinging nettles are abundant in northern Europe and much of Asia, usually found in the countryside. It is less gregarious in southern Europe and north Africa, where it is restricted by its need for moist soil. In North America it is widely distributed in Canada and the United States, where it is found in every province and state except for Hawaii and also can be found in northernmost Mexico. In North America the stinging nettle is far less common than in northern Europe. The European subspecies has been introduced into North America as well as South America.


KOPRIVA je dvodomna biljka s velikim korenom. Stabljika je uspravna visine do 1,5 m. Listovi su nasuprotni, srcasti, zašiljeni, pilasti, na kratkim peteljkama. Listovi i peteljke pokriveni sitnim iglicama koje su na vrhu kukaste a pri dnu debele. Na dodir se odlome i izlivaju oštar sok na kožu, koji žari. Cvetne kopriva grančice nose ili muške ili ženske cvetove. Plod koprive je mali jednosemeni oraščić. Kopriva izuzetno je bogata raznim korisnim sastojcima: belančevinama, ugljenim hidratima, mastima, kalcijumom, fosforom, gvožđem, vitaminima C, A, B2 i K, karotinom, pantotenskom kiselinom i dr.
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  • Great 
  • jone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1840 W: 69 N: 0] (17558)
  • [2008-06-27 0:46]

Pozdrav Igore ;)
lepa kolorithna i osunchana dijagonala, TFS
J ;)

Zdravo İgor,
What a stunning macro shot here vith great colours, sharpness and details.TFS.
Pozdrav,

Lep vikend,

hAyAti

Dobro jutro druzhe...
Kazu da je zdravo kad opece :-)
Lijep vikend...
Andro

Hello Igor,
This plant uses for eating in my country.
Well composed and sharp image.
TFS
Selahattin E

Hi Igor
Pleasant picture. We can show this common plant nicely. Interesting description, even in Serbian. Pozdrwiam Mark

Amazing macro. Wonderful colours. Good composition. Well done.

Zdrasti, Igore,
Mnogo prijatna svezha fotka i interesno zasneta
Ubode li se?:)
TFS
Valerka:)

Uh,baš bi mi prijala jedna dobra čorba od kopriva:)
Lepo Igore,pozdrav.
A.

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  • Kiwis Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1606 W: 0 N: 173] (12337)
  • [2008-06-27 15:22]

Hello Igor,
Very great macro shot! Well composed. The colors are alive. A real beauty. Thanks and have a nice week-end
Diane

Hi Igor,
Nice diagonal composition with the tree trunk as the background to the plant giving it a good color contrast. Very good write up to describe the plant. Well captured and composed! tfs
Cheers,
Renier

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  • Koala Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 365 W: 21 N: 71] (2346)
  • [2008-06-28 2:45]

Hi Igor!
How are you?
We call this plant URZICA :P
It really stings :P
Very nice shot and great colors!

Have a nice day!

Alexandra

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  • gnada Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2210 W: 59 N: 2455] (13837)
  • [2008-06-28 11:59]

Hi Igore...
Dobra i koloricna fotka kao i obicno...
Cestitam, George

Hello Igor. Interesting framing and useful not of this plant. Well placed subject against the bark providing good contrast in the image. Thanks for sharing and best regards. Jusni

Hello Igor,
Wonderful image,great composition and POV here..
The color,sharpness and light are well manage..
Good one my friend.

CM

Thanks for your kind words on "F/T FINGERS".

  • Great 
  • dorian (68)
  • [2008-07-03 21:15]

Very nice and interesting,
good diagonale, nice framed, well done Igor!

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