Peach Colored Bearded Iris
by Robert Bales
Title
Peach Colored Bearded Iris
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
This bearded Iris sure would look great on your wall!!
Irises are perennial plants, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises) or, in drier climates, from bulbs (bulbous irises). They have long, erect flowering stems which may be simple or branched, solid or hollow, and flattened or have a circular cross-section. The rhizomatous species usually have 3 to 10 basal sword-shaped leaves growing in dense clumps. The bulbous species have cylindrical, basal leaves.
The iris flower is of interest as an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects. The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic surfaces on the outer petals form a landing-stage for a flying insect, which in probing for nectar, will first come into contact with the perianth, then with the stigmatic stamens in one whorled surface which is borne on an ovary formed of three carpels. The shelf-like transverse projection on the inner whorled underside of the stamens is beneath the overarching style arm below the stigma, so that the insect comes in contact with its pollen-covered surface only after passing the stigma; in backing out of the flower it will come in contact only with the non-receptive lower face of the stigma. Thus, an insect bearing pollen from one flower will, in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma; in backing out of a flower, the pollen which it bears will not be rubbed off on the stigma of the same flower.
Uploaded
May 12th, 2015
Statistics
Viewed 1,790 Times - Last Visitor from Jamaica, NY on 04/24/2024 at 5:11 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (25)
Darin Williams
Congratulations on your sale! Beautiful image! l/f
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks Darin for the LF, congrats and the nice comment !! We made it to Yuma, AZ for the winter.
Ian Mitchell
Stunning image....beautiful colours Robert....v/f tweet !!
Robert Bales replied:
So sorry i missed this one, but thanks for the nice comments and the promotion!!
Music of the Heart
How wonderful to see the way you have captured this beautiful iris!! I love the colors and the drops of water. Excellent work Robert!
BASANT SONI
Magnificent divine flowers with drops beauty GREAT capture Speechless Robert Such dried petals of Iris also used as layers/media (before perishing) for creation of Organic art on Bark canvas of palm tree.The concept is ' Eco Friendly Organic Art '
Ruth Housley
So beautiful and love the color of the Iris as well as the raindrops on the flower. f/l Ruth