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Tags: Chile, Patagonia, Photo of the Day, plants & flowers, South America, Torres del Paine
Foxglove Flower in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia Chile
We know we have given you this photo on our Travel Photo of the Day series before, but it is my personal favorite flower picture and I just had to included it in our flower and plant week.
Foxgloves are also called Witches’ Gloves, Dead Men’s Bells, Fairy’s Glove, Gloves of Our Lady, Bloody Fingers, Virgin’s Glove, Fairy Caps, Folk’s Glove, and Fairy Thimbles. These are biennial plants and are tall, slender perennials at 2-5′ in height and just 1-2′ wide. It is a very statuesque plant. It has numerous tubular flowers blooming on a spike, ranging in color from purple to white. Foxglove flowers appear in the summer months. The flowers are bell-shaped and tubular, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches long, flattened above, inflated beneath, crimson outside above and paler beneath, the lower lip furnished with long hairs inside and marked with numerous dark crimson spots, each surrounded with a white border. ~ Iflorist.co.uk
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9 Responses
I need to take some micro photo lessons from ya´ll. Excellent.
Thanks Michael. Sometimes you just get lucky.
Sooooooo beautiful.
Great detail in the flower, nice work.
Great photo, I love the colors and detail
Love it!
Thanks! This is probably the most beautiful flower photo we have.
I always joke about the flower setting on my camera, but now I know why it’s there! Great work guys.
I must admit, I do enjoy taking the flower shots. And if you are not in macro mode it can be extremely difficult to focus on.