Seagull photo with a canon S95

An incredibly clear photo with rich details of a seagull taken with a Canon S95 digital camera.



I like the way the S95 camera captures and renders the colors.

Bird	Seagull
Location	Bay of Monte Carlo, Royal Gardens
Camera	Canon S95
Setting	F 4.5, ISO 125, Expo time 1/1000
Photographer	Penny Quilter of England

Photograph owned and copyright by Penny Quilter. Published in this blog with permission.

Rivina humilis, weed like with bright red berries

Considered a pest since it can crowd out other plants, this plant attracts birds to eat its berries and disperse it in some other places. In fact I saw an untamed brown pigeon one day in our family house in Sum-ag Bacolod City near this plant which has created a dense thicket!

Strangely though it is a common plant, it is not listed in Dr. Stuart's Xchange database for medicinal plants.

Plant	Rivina humilis
Full name	Plantae| Angiosperms |Eudicots | Order: Caryophyllales| Family: Phytolaccaceae|Genus: Rivina| Species: R. humilis
Common name	Pigeonberry, Rouge Plant, Baby Peppers, Bloodberry, and Coralito
Location	Bacolod City
Photographers	Susan Estrope Dicker(1st photo), Dr. Ernesto Adorio(2nd photo)
Camera	Pansonic S3(1st photo), Olympus VG110(2nd photo)
Acknowledgment	Dinah Canada (scientific name identification)
References	Wikipedia
Albums	Facebook (E.P. Adorio)

First photo (c), 2013 by SED of Australia.

Images are not to be used for commercial purposes.

Prickly Pear cactus, opuntia

Plant	Opuntia cochinellifera,Opuntia ficus-indica
Common name	Prickly pear,abakus, dila-dila, nopal, palad
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR
Location	Clarkfield, Pampanga
Photographer	Ernesto Adorio
Reference	Stuartxchange, Wikipedia

Mickey mouse eggplant, nipple plant, Solanum Mammosum

This funny looking plant "fruit" is the mickey mouse eggplant, found in the wild. According to some it is NOT edible, but stuart xchange says :
Fruit makes an excellent vegetable, the elongated kind is most cultivated, eaten before it ripens, before the seed hardens.Good source of calcium, phosphorus, iron, and vitamin B. The green leaves are a good source of vitamin C.

Plant	Solanum Mammosum
Common name	Mickey mouse eggplant, Cow's Udder Plant, Nipple Fruit
Location	Salvador Benedicto
Camera	Nokia C3
Photographer	Ernesto P. Adorio
Reference	Wikipedia, stuart xchange

"Deathly white" unknown plant flower at UP Clark

Some may like the flower, but I find it strangely solemnly sad to look at.


And it is not still identified, though it is commonly called IVORY flowers. I have posted the photo in Facebook and will give P100.00 to the first one who can properly identify it.


Identified today, February 13, 2013 as Calotropis Gigantea by Dinah Canada.

Plant/flower	Calotropis Gigantea
Common Name	Ivory Flower, bowstring hemp, calotrope, crown flower, crownplant, giant milkweed, madar
Location	Clark Field, Pampanga
Camera	Fujifilm HS25EXR camera
Acknowledgment	Ella Jacildo (common name), Dinah Canada (scientific name)
Reference	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotropis_gigantea

Birds in sky formation

Taken with Samsung WB150F digital camera, 1/180s, f/3.7, ISO 80 In Sta. Maria, Bulacan, February 9, 2013.

Sweet scented mock orange flowers, Philadelphus

I was amazed when my Australian based FB friend posted a photo of a "mock" lemon or orange. Seems the name is appropriate since they gave off the same scents but never bear fruits. Wikipedia showed that it belongs to the genus Philadelphus with 60 members.

Plant/Flower	Plantae/Angiosperms|Eudicots/Asterids/Cornales/Hydrangeaceae/Philadelphus
Common Name	Mock Orange or Lemeon
Camera	Panasonic S3
Location	Gladstone, Australia
Photographer	Susan Estrope Dicker
Reference	http://Wikipedia entry

Image owned and copyright by Susan Estrope Dicker. Photo hosted in Facebook.