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Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 300mm f/4.0L IS USM
Location: Hays, Kansas
Date: Jul 23, 2007
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 24, 2007
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Cucurbita foetidissima
Also known as: wild gourd, Missouri gourd, coyote gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, or fetid gourd, because of the strong odor of the leaves.
Buffalo gourd produces a 3-4 inch round gourd with yellow and green stripes. The gourd is extremely bitter.
The Omaha, Osage, Ponca, and Dakota attributed mystical and medicinal powers to the root. Their names refer to it as "strong medicine" and "pumpkin medicine". Special care was taken when unearthing the root, for it was believed that an injury to the root would lead to injury of oneself or one's family members.
The gourds were sometimes made into ceremonial and children's rattles.
Some Apache groups used a warm mixture of pulverized stems, leaves and roots to treat sores on horses.
The root can grow to enormous proportions. It will descend 4 to 6 feet and weigh more than 100 pounds. A root weighing 178 pounds has actually been recorded!
(Information taken directly from website
Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses)
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07/25/2007 07:00:48 AM |
| Nice to see the perspective of the flower in comparison to the leaves. Looks like there's a little bug inside the bloom. |
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07/24/2007 06:05:17 PM |
The texture on the underside of the leaf has me fascinated. I would love to see it better. It looks like a chenille bedspread.
ETA took 4 tries to get close enough to "chenille" for spell check to recognize and fix it. Sad.
Message edited by author 2007-07-24 22:07:58. |
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07/24/2007 10:20:14 AM |
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07/24/2007 07:20:26 AM |
can't imagine what happened to my text! hmmm??
I think I said I love this & thought it would be great Still Life entry!
Really nice!
~Anni
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07/24/2007 07:15:28 AM |
| I like the vivid color of the flower. Would love to see a close macro of this bloom. Texture looks very interesting. |
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