Affordable Originals by Magaly Burton: Digital Art Photography

I started a new series on Hydrangeas or Hortensias in Spanish.

The Hydrangea is a native of Japan, but seems to do well just about everywhere. Hydrangea make gorgeous landscape shrubs in the proper setting.

But their real beauty in my estimation is after death!

They dry to a beautiful, delicate bouquet and you can enjoy them for a really

long time. You can also enjoy them as Wall Decor, these here are my

artistic offering you can find then at my Etsy store.

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Monday, July 1, 2013

How much do you know about this beautiful but very delicate flower?

Well, Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species.

It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

A fascinating aspect of Magnolias that is considered to represent an ancestral state

is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals;

the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called tepals rather than distinct sepals and petals.

(Tepals are elements of the perianth, or outer part of a flower, which includes the petals or sepals)

Undifferentiated tepals are common in monocotyledons.

In tulips, for example, the first and second whorls both contain structures that look like petals.

These are fused at the base to form one large, showy,

six-parted structure. In lilies the organs in the first whorl are separate from the second,

but all look similar, thus all the showy parts are often called tepals.

All of the above is to me overwhelming evidence of design,

therefore, unmistakably the handy work of a Supreme Designer!

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Affordable Originals by Magaly Burton