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ctfchallenge | all galleries >> Challenge 67: Close-up Photography >> Challenge 67 : Exhibition > Wake Robin *
(white form)
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17-APR-2004 Garrie Rouse

Wake Robin *
(white form)

New River Gorge, WV

This is a (creamy) white form of an otherwise maroon colored Trillium that grows wild in the rich colluvial forests of the Southern Appalachians. For all its beauty, this member of the Lilly Family has an unpleasant scent and is also known as "Stinking Benjamin". The maroon colored flower parts, combined with the ill scent, are a strategy to attract carrion feeding insects (such as flies and beetles) for cross pollination.

Canon EOS 10D
1/200s f/5.6 at 50.0mm iso400 full exif

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Garrie Rouse02-Nov-2004 01:46
Nugar,

Thanks again for your constructive comments. The black speck should go. The white specks are actually grains of pollen from the yellow anthers below which you can see have dehisced and are starting to disseminate their payload. I, too, find them a distraction however.

Garrie
Nugar30-Oct-2004 21:21
Beautiful. * -> Clone the white and black specks on the upper petal.
aam1234 30-Oct-2004 05:32
Very elegant.
Guest 29-Oct-2004 00:14
Very interesting.