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Plumbago
17 June 2024
Plumbago auriculata
97% certain
- Family
- Plumbaginaceae
- Origin
- South Africa
- Bloom season
- Warm months
- Colors
- blue, white
- Habitat
- Mediterranean walls, tropical hedges, and sunny banks
- Symbolism
- Hope, and a blue that does not shout
Phlox-like sky-blue florets in sticky clusters, scrambling into a hedge that keeps blooming in heat.
Care. Give full sun and sharp drainage; frost nips it, and it resprouts from the base.
A note. The calyx is sticky, which is how the plant hitchhikes seeds on passing animals.
Or perhaps
- Forget-me-not — 3%
- Pentas — 3%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Jun 17, 2024, 6:57 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 6.86mm f/1.78
- Focal length
- 6.9mm
- Aperture
- f/1.8
- Shutter
- 1/894s
- ISO
- 64
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
18.4563° N, 69.9415° W
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