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Keywords: Rosaceae | Rubus thibetanus 'Silver Fern' | 32955-5170-1997
From December 16, 2006 to January 14, 2007, Botany Photo of the Day is going to be featuring photo abstracts posted with little or no scientific commentary. If abstracts aren't to your taste, please consider revisiting the site in mid-January. – Daniel
This bramble is the source of much recent photographic frustration for me. It beckons outside my second-floor office window with its tangled icy-blue mass of canes, asking to be photographed in pretty much the exact frame that I see through the window from my office chair – a window that only opens thirty degrees outwards, thereby requiring me to either 1) move furniture and lean out the window while undergoing unnatural contortions (which I suspect the safety folks might have something to say about); 2) take the photograph through the window glass (and accept some glare and reduced image quality); or 3) let it taunt me. I wonder if I can get away with propping a ladder against the side of the building...
This shot was from a much closer distance, with a new lens.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at January 3, 2007 12:00 AM
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Posted by: bev at January 3, 2007 2:34 AM
Ah, the demands of science and art! Glad you were able to get the shot.
Posted by: Barbara at January 3, 2007 7:43 AM
Rubus thibetanus 'Silver Fern' - Z6 - RHS Index of Garden Plants
Posted by: Beverley at January 3, 2007 8:21 AM
2002 edition of HILLIER MANUAL OF TREES & SHRUBS equates 'Silver Fern' with the typical plant. Under R. thibetanus it says:
"It has also been distributed as R. thibetanus 'Silver Fern'.
Posted by: Ron B at January 3, 2007 4:43 PM
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Daniel;
Thanks for a great picture and a good laugh this morning! I worked for many years in an office with NO window, so all I can say is, enjoy the view and don't land in the hospital!