Colchicums autumn 2007

[I.S.]

  Mark your temperature is running out..

[dominique]

Perhaps my last autumn Colchicum, Colchicum boissieri

[mark smyth]

My Colchicum cupanii AH9707 has been flowering now for 5 weeks. Again, very boring I apologise, Nikon v Canon

[Maggi Young]

Just loving these pix, and the Crocus etc, too, Mark. Having trouble deciding which camera I prefer the shots with at the moment... 

[fermi de Sousa]

Mark,
which camera do you think gives you the "better" image, i.e. the more natural looking?
I like the way you are showing us the differences - not boring at all.
cheers
fermi

[Carlo]

It's not even a fair comparison, unless you can be sure that each camera's settings are identical. I maintain that it's more the photographer than the camera. Furthermore, (since we are assuming that the images are untouched by Photoshop or pre-photoshop software) they can probably be made to look identical even if different at first blush...

[KentGardener]

definitely the first picture that does it for me.  Which Nikon is it Mark?

John

[mark smyth]

I would rather have the Nikon CoolPix 5000. It gives more life to photos. The photos are edited down to 700 pixels using Photo Shop but nothing else is done to them. The photos were taken seconds apart is full sun.

[mark smyth]

Colchicums have a superior ovary. I was convinced the ovary in Colchicum was inferior untill today

Going back through the Colchicum pages this morning I now have a question. What is the difference between a superior and inferior ovary?

[David Nicholson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovary_(plants)

[mark smyth]

Thanks. So from Wikipedia ...

A superior ovary is attached to the receptacle above the attachment of other floral parts - berries

An inferior ovary lies below the attachment of other floral parts - Fuschia

A half-inferior ovary is embedded or surrounded by the receptacle

[Diane Clement]

What is the difference between a superior and inferior ovary?

Sorry can't get the Wikipedia link to work ..

A superior ovary is above the flower parts (petals, sepals) and inferior is below these. Many monocots (Liliaceae, Iridaceae), have superior ovaries, the exception is the family Amaryllidaceae (narcissus, galanthus, etc) which have inferior ovaries.  Colchicums used to be in Liliaceae until the big split of the genus (giving them their own family Colchicaceae) so they do have superior ovaries, not easy to spot as they are underground. 

[Anthony Darby]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovary_%28plants%29

[Paddy Tobin]

The Nikon, in Mark's two colchicum photographs earlier,  seems to have focused better - presuming auto focus here - and also seems to have a better depth of field and contrast.

Paddy

[Joakim B]

Here are some colchicums that I have photographed earlier (October-November) in the botanical garden of Lund University. More about that garden will come later in this thread. http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1068.0
The light conditions were not good and many or most of the flowers were on the ground rather than up right.
 I hope that You can identify them and that I have no crocus amongst them . It would be slightly embarising. They are all around a small pond in the garden so that kids and students should not pick them .