#Violaceae

[francescointoppa]

V – Viola tricolor L. – Viola del pensiero (Violaceae)

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Pensées en boîte…

[oliviarosaline]

Bird's Foot Violet

Viola pedata

Named after its leaves which resemble a bird's foot... This gorgeous violet is native to a large portion of eastern North America and thrives in sandy areas, rocky slopes, and other sunny, very well-drained habitats that are undisturbed. Three different color varieties can be found in the wild; bicolor (pictured above), lilac, and white. I have found both the bicolor and solid lilac varieties in abundance within glades and some prairies here in Missouri. Additionally, this species hosts fritillary butterfly larvae and provides nectar to many other butterflies and bees.

April 18th, 2024

St. Francois County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[faguscarolinensis]

Viola canadensis / Tall White Violet at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[drhoz]

#2658 - Melicytus alpinus - Porcupine Shrub 

AKA Hymenanthera dentata var. alpina, and Hymenanthera alpina. Melicytus comes from the Greek for 'honey cave' and refers to the staminal nectaries of the flowers.

Another unfriendly plant growing on the moraine of the Tasman Glacier, although unlike the Bush Lawyer previously this growth form may have been evolved to protect the leaves from the harsh climate, or possibly from hungry Moa.

Melicytus alpinus can be found in both the North and South Island of New Zealand in coastal and in dry alpine areas, shrugging off cold, drought, soils that are little more than broken rock, and dry saline ground. It is most common in the South Island high country.

Favoured habitat for many of New Zealand's lizards, who eat the fruit and spread the seeds.

Aoraki/ Mt Cook, Aotearoa New Zealand

[heather-rajendran]

Common dog-violet (Viola riviniana) wildflower photo I took 12/05/2024, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

[spatheandspadix]

Longspur violet, one of my favorites

[apeachyfool]

[blogflores0]

Autor: Olga Guedes

[calochortus]

Hornveilchen by Petra Wruck Via Flickr: Frühling auf dem Balkon. Foto: Petra Wruck

[francescointoppa]

V – Viola odorata L. – Viola mammola (Violaceae)

[lmaxell-plants]

Viola sororia - common blue violet

Native

Violet Family (Violaceae)

Bloom: Mid-April

Notes: this is growing everywhere, really cool rhizomes. I couldn't get rid of this if I tried

Links:

[alienbath]

Shout out to the Violet Carpenter bees with their iridescent wings

(Source: The John Russell Honey Company)

[rattyexplores]

S. violacea, a very round species of jumping spider.

14/01/24 - Simaethula violacea

QLD:WET

[drhoz]

#1926 - Melicytus ramiflorus -  Māhoe

AKA Whiteywood

A small, much-branched tree from the Violet family, growing to a height of about 10m. In open lowland and lower montane forest throughout New Zealand it is one of the most common trees. It frequently germinates as an epiphyte on tree ferns. The bark is a whitish colour and the branchlets very brittle.

Decaying Māhoe leaves form characteristic skeletonised leaves, piling up around the base of the tree.

The scented, small, yellow flowers appear in late spring, and the purple berries in late summer and are eaten by native birds such as the Kereru, Tui honeyeaters, and geckos of the genus Naultinus. They don’t seem to be edible to humans, however. Both flowers and fruit grow directly from the trunk - ramiflory. 

The Maori used the liquid from boiled leaves as an external treatment for rheumatism and scabies, but the main use of this species was in the friction method of fire lighting - a slab of the soft wood scraped with a pointed stick of harder species in order to make a flame.

There is, naturally, mythology about this, and perhaps predictably it involves Maui – the great trickster god of Polynesian tradition. One day Maui set out to learn the secret of fire, put out all the fires in his village, and volunteered to go meet with his Grandmother Mahuika the fire god whose fingernails were made of flame. He persuaded Mahuika to part with one of her fingernails, and then immediately extinguished it in a nearby river. Maui persuaded her to give him another nail, and another, and continued to put them out in the water. By the last nail, Mahuika realized what Maui was doing and in a fit of anger threw up a great flame that threatened to ignite the earth, boil the seas, and burn the forests. So Maui called on his ancestor Tāwhirimātea – god of the weather - to put out the flame. 

Mahuika collected the last few sparks and looked for somewhere to place them. The trees of rata, hīnau, kahikatea, rimu, and miro all refused, but the kaikomako and mahoe accepted. Maui saw Mahuika place the spark of fire in these trees, and returned to his village to show his family and friends how they could bring out the fire by rubbing them together.

[raccaryusui]

職場に向かう途中の商店街にある

お花屋さんで咲いていた、

白い「ハーデンベルギア」の花。

ハーデンベルギア属。

別名：コマチフジ(小町藤)。

学名：Hardenbergia violacea

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