It is Spring Again No Quote

A beautiful purple and white Iris captured on a Spring day. I have used effects and textures to give the photo a painterly look. This would be... more

by Darren Fisher

Title

It is Spring Again No Quote

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

Description

A beautiful purple and white Iris captured on a Spring day. I have used effects and textures to give the photo a painterly look. This would be beautiful in any room of your home, office or in a waiting room.
The iris flower is of interest as an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects. The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic surfaces on the outer petals form a landing-stage for a flying insect, which in probing for nectar, will first come into contact with the perianth, then with the stigmatic stamens in one whorled surface which is borne on an ovary formed of three carpels. The shelf-like transverse projection on the inner whorled underside of the stamens is beneath the overarching style arm below the stigma, so that the insect comes in contact with its pollen-covered surface only after passing the stigma; in backing out of the flower it will come in contact only with the non-receptive lower face of the stigma. Thus, an insect bearing pollen from one flower will, in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma; in backing out of a flower, the pollen which it bears will not be rubbed off on the stigma of the same flower.

The iris fruit is a capsule which opens up in three parts to reveal the numerous seeds within. In some species, these bear an aril.

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April 23rd, 2015