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Inside the Day Lily



Inside the Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this capture larger.

Poking my nose (and macro lens) into a newly opening day lily reveals a world bisexuality (botanically speaking): pistils and stamens unfurling and reaching for maturity.

With the sun lighting the sides of the flower, everything seems much “hotter” than in this more neutral portrait of a day lily (also in my garden).

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One Response to “Inside the Day Lily”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Spadix Says:
    March 12th, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    [...] e you see in the calla lily. This photo is looking straight down into the flower. Another bisexual flower, the small male blooms are yellow-orange and on the column on the left of the capture. [...]

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