I wouldn’t call it stressed, but I have been quite busy with all the projects I’m trying to juggle. So when the deadline for the EMBO cover contest came, I simply forgot to submit this picture, even though I had spent some time thinking about the description I’d give it — the usual problem being that I have no idea what kind of flower it is. To refer to the rarely used subtitle of this blog, the macromolecules get a lot more of my attention than the macro photographs. Which isn’t a bad thing, not at all, but as I don’t write much about the former here it means there’s little to blog about.
Ich würde es nicht gestresst nennen, aber ich bin doch recht beschäftigt mit den diversen Projekten, die ich gleichzeitig in der Luft zu halten versuche. Als dann die Deadline für den EMBO cover contest näherrückte, habe ich einfach vergessen, untenstehendes Bild mit abzuschicken, obwohl ich eine ganze Weile über die Beschreibung nachgedacht hatte (mit dem üblichen Problem, dass ich nicht weiß, was für eine Blume das eigentlich ist). Um auf den Untertitel des Blogs zu verweisen — den Makromolekülen schenke ich wesentlich mehr Aufmerksamkeit als der Makrofotografie. Was an sich nichts schlechtes ist, überhaupt nicht, aber da ich hier nicht viel über erstere schreibe, gibt es nicht viel neues für den Blog.
Lovely! It looks like a bud from ornamental allium. Or maybe chives; I can’t quite tell the scale…
I also believe this is the flower of an allium. Wonderful picture. If you forgot to submit this picture, what else did you submit?
Jenny, you’re so good at this that I’m considering sending you my pictures for next year’s contest first for assessment ;)
And I think you’re both right, it is an allium — it was bigger than chives, but from what I understand they’re part of the same family anyway? (My favorite part of the wikipedia article: “Allium is taxonomically difficult and species boundaries are unclear.”)
Barb, thanks! I think I have posted most of the pictures I did submit, but I’ll try to do a collection soonish.
Plant identification is one of my hobbies, especially edible plants (in case of nuclear winter apocalypse, or something!). I have several plant-id books in addition to my beloved mushroom book (mostly not edible, plus I hate eating mushrooms).
and yes, in that onion-y things are a family?
Very useful hobby — funny though that you can identify the [edible] mushrooms but won’t eat them ;) I, on the other hand, know most of the PhD comics by heart. Not very useful unless you’re surrounded by bitter grad students…
The onion-y family thing is what I understood from the Wikipedia articles, so take it with a grain of salt.