Showing posts with label fireweed seed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireweed seed. Show all posts

Saturday, September 06, 2025

Fluffy

Fireweed is a beautiful flower, pink and glorious, a favourite of hummingbirds and bees. But I think I like it best when it has gone to seed.

Tall spikes releasing white fluff into the wind.

Have to zoom in to appreciate the design.

Loops and swirls and fluff.

And each feathery bit of fluff bears one flying fireweed seed.

"Nuff "f"s?

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El epilobio, que aquí llamamos "hierba de fuego", Chamaenerion angustifolium es una planta hermosa, con sus flores color de rosa vibrante, gloriosas, favoritas de los colibríes y las abejas. Pero creo que me gusta más al fin del verano, cuando está echando sus semillas a la brisa.
  1. Los tallos altos; llegan hasta los 3 metros.
  2. Pero hay que acercarse para apreciar su belleza. Los tallos de las flores se han vuelto círculos y espirales apenas deteniendo los vilanos sedosos.
  3. Y cada vilano lleva su semilla.
(Me divertí en inglés jugando con palabras con la letra "f" —flower, fireweed, flying, fluff, feathery, 'nuff. No funciona en español. Ni modo.)


Thursday, August 29, 2019

Curly

The fireweed has gone to seed. And the seeds are ballooning over the forests, like spiderlings. Or dandelion fluff.

The unripe seed pods are long and straight. Then they ripen and split open, releasing the fluff and the seeds. The empty pods then curl up, providing a framework for seeds waiting for a good wind.

One fireweed stalk. Each plant may release up to 80,000 seeds.

A crop from the previous photo. Elegant curves, intertwined.

Photos taken at the beaver pond. More later.

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