Exotic Beauty (65) : Eggplant
The past years I made several visits to the conservatories of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium where 10.000 (!) plant and tree species originating from the tropics and the subtropics are growing in the greenhouses over there.
Thanks to the warm and moist climate in the conservatories and the intensive maintenance, it’s really amazing what an immense great variety of exotic flowers from all over the world can be seen there, even in the cold winter season !
Flowers whose natural habitat is situated in the rainforest, the mountain forest, isolated islands, deserts, etc……. Places that most of us will never or seldom visit.
Some of the flowers are very rare, extremely colourful or specially shaped.
Others were introduced in Europe by men and became a cultivated species or an ornamental houseplant.
I selected the –to my personal taste- most beautiful flowers that I saw there and made a series of them.
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In English also known as Wild Aubergine
Dutch name : Eierplant (ook Wilde Aubergine genaamd)
German name : Eierpflanze (auch Eierbaum und Wilde Aubergine genannt)
Latin name : Solanum melongena
Country of origin : India
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Actually, the shot does not show the flowers of this plant, but its fruits.
As you can see there’s a great difference in view between the wild and the well known cultivated aubergine.
Wild aubergines have the size and color of a goose or hen’s egg (hence its official name) while the most cultivated varieties are elongated and have a dark purple skin.
Bernhard Kuhlmann 24/03/2013 10:13
Das habe ich noch nie gesehen !Eine wirklich tolle Arbeit von dir .
Gruß Bernd
Vera Shulga 19/03/2013 21:35
Tolle Aufnahme!LG
Jacques BURY 15/03/2013 19:34
*****Amazing colors, light and sharpness.*****Best regards.
Jacques
Günter Nau 11/03/2013 19:25
von deinen Fotos ist eines schöner als das andere. Gute Arbeit Mark.Grüße Günter
Silvia Simonato. 10/03/2013 22:14
En la simplicidad también se encuentra belleza.Saludos Silvia
Deryck 09/03/2013 7:28
I'm amazed how this plant could be turned into the cultivated purple fruit eggplant. Interesting....Deryck
Lawson McCulloch 07/03/2013 20:57
I like the rich colours of this shot very much Mark.best wishes,
Lawson
Alfred Schultz 07/03/2013 20:50
Useful information, as I wasalways wondering why Aubergine
is called Eggplant.
Thanx - Groetjes
Alfred
Vitória Castelo Santos 07/03/2013 20:23
Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!A. Lötscher -Bergjäger- 07/03/2013 16:43
Wunderschön dieses Licht und die fantastischen Farben!!LG Bergjäger
Norbert Kappenstein 07/03/2013 15:06
Eine perfekte Lichtsetzung zeichnet diese Aufnahme aus.Sehr gut fotografiert.
LG Norbert
Inge Stüwe 07/03/2013 12:48
Ein interessantes Motiv, habe ich noch nicht gesehen,hast Du perfekt fotografiert!
Liebe Grüße
Inge
Markus 4 07/03/2013 11:37
beeindruckendHabedieehre
Markus
Sylvia Schulz 07/03/2013 10:15
oh ja, die habe ich im Botanischen Garten in Neuseeland fotografiert, interessant sehen sie aus und bestens von Dir gezeigt, auch wieder danke für die InfoLG Sylvia
Othmar W. Mayer 07/03/2013 10:12
Hi Mark,Great image, which shows us that it's nice to see outside of our little Europe.
Kind regards
Othmar