Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Disclaimer
    • Subject Index
Home Home » TYPES » Shrubs » Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum gland dots
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 11,528
Total number of hits on all images: 6,610,499

Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum gland dots

Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum gland dots
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 178 of 497  
Next Next
Image 180 of 497  
  • Gloveria integrifolia skew fruit
  • Glumicalyx montanus
  • Gomphostigma virgatum
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule husk
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum epicalyx
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum flower
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum gland dots
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum leaf from below
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum leaves
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum presenting its wild cotton
  • Halleria elliptica
  • Halleria elliptica flower
  • Halleria elliptica leaves
  • Hermbstaedtia glauca
  • Hermbstaedtia glauca flowerhead

Image information

Description

Black leaf mottling in the form of gland dots as in the photo is a feature of Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum. These dots also occur on other plant parts. The dots, not visible everywhere, are found on parts of both leaf surfaces.

If size does not matter, some of the leaves in picture have seven lobes. Pointed lobe tips seem to be a feature reserved for the bigger lobes in the centre, like insignia of rank reserved for the dominant... equality is as unimportant to nature as it is impossible in human nature.

It is human culture that wrestles with this in pursuit of adopted values, fiddling with rights and opportunities in opposition to nature. Fortunately mission impossible does not stare the plant world in the face, unless the impact of people upon nature itself does not decrease. Currently all of nature has to suffer as one species pursues its pipedreams.

The leaves are soft-textured here, a faint hairiness visible. Leaf colours, although there is a range, does not differ much between upper and lower surfaces (Pooley, 1998; Onderstall, 1996; Letty, 1962; iSpot; Mannheimer and Curtis, (Eds.), 2009; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000).

Hits
499
Photographer
Ivan Latti
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery