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Keywords: Sapindaceae | Acer mono Maxim. subsp. okamotoanum (Nakai) PC De Jong | 20615-0348-1980
Maple flowers. The buds measure just under five centimetres. One of the reasons I love macro photography is it forces me to examine plants for the beauty or subtleties that are often very easy to overlook.
This is the third year in a row I've attempted to take a photo of these, and the first time I've been happy with the image. However, I did “cheat” - I used the Wimberley Plamp that I received as a gift for Christmas. It makes a world of difference for macro photography, particularly so at the garden at UBC. It is a rare day when there is no breeze off the Georgia Strait, and wind is the bane of macro photography.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at April 6, 2005 12:00 AM
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Posted by: Linda Jennings at April 6, 2005 5:54 PM
I have to laugh. Daniel is concerned about the wind in what is probably the least windy coastal city in the world. A stunning photo nevertheless. The tree is one of our prizes--about 8m tall by 6m wide, immediately beside the administration building and visible through a window in a stairwell, which allows for daily intimate viewing of its progress throughout the year. What I particularly like about the image is that it seems to capture the energy of the expanding flowers as they burst open the beautiful deerhide-like paired budscales.
Acer mono subsp. okamotoanum is an endemic from the Korean island of Ullung-do. Along with lovely, fat, overwintering buds and striking yellow flowers, it has extraordinary, broadly lobed leaves with long drip-tips. According to the indispensable maple reference, "Maples of the World" Timber Press, 1994 (page 225), "The tree has not been seen in flower." Our single tree is from a 1980 batch of seed that apparently also went to Britain. Unfortunately, none of that seed produced a tree. Perhaps there is one in Britain now. For beautiful, rare maples (and mostly calm weather) we are indeed fortunate .
Posted by: Douglas Justice at April 8, 2005 6:02 PM
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Daniel,
Really, really nice. This totally caught my eye today.
Linda