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Gummed Up
Started July 22, 2010 @ 11:04pm by RickT
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RickT
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| Gummed Up | July 22, 2010 @ 11:04pm | A newly opened gumweed flower. Actual size about 3/4".
Canon EOS 40D, lens Canon 100mm macro, ISO 400, f/11, 1/250sec w/flash
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
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Flo
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| July 23, 2010 @ 8:03am | This is a different flower for me. I love the little curlies around the base of the bracts. Does it have a gummy sap?
I also love the tad of purple at extreme left! And the little hints of reddish places in the background. You have two pairs of color opposites here - congrats!
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Wes
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| July 23, 2010 @ 8:30am | Great detail and combination of shapes, Rick. The blurred background colors work quite well with the colors and shapes of the main subject.
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RickT
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| July 23, 2010 @ 10:16pm | Thanks, Wes and Flo. I liked the curled bracts when I saw them in the viewfinder. I tend to miss details like that without the help of a macro lens or other magnifier. The shiny bracts are definitely sugar-sticky, but Flo's question sent me looking for information. Utah State University had a (intentionally?) humorous entry.
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Curlycup gumweed is unpalatable to cattle, sheep, and horses, though sheep will occasionally crop flower heads in the absence of other forage. Tannins, volatile oils, resins, bitter alkaloids, and glucosides give it an unpleasant taste. If curlycup gumweed is consumed, it may lead to poisoning due to the selenium the plant can accumulate. It is resistant to grazing and drought.
American Indians used the gummy secretions of curlycup gumweed to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and colic. Pawnee Indians boiled leaves and flowering tops to treat saddle sores and raw skin. Today, medicinal uses include treatment of bronchial spasm, whooping cough, asthma, and rashes caused by poison ivy. Curlycup gumweed extract is valuable as a stimulant, sedative, astringent, purgative, emetic, diuretic, antiseptic, and disinfectant.
from: http://extension.usu.edu/range/forbs/curlycupgumweed.htm
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So...right after telling us that you can get selenium poisoning by eating it, you get a whole list of conditions you can treat by...eating it. I especially like the fact that you can use it as a stimulant and a sedative. Truly a Jack of all trades.
RickT
Boulder, Colorado
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwteichler/
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Flo
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| July 24, 2010 @ 7:45am | Thanks for the info, Rick! I hope they take out the excess selenium - but then I think that some meds for manic depressives do contain selenium - or perhaps it's another condition.
You'd probably use it as a stimulant for people who normally would use coffee? And as a sedative for hyperactives? Sometimes the same substance can have opposite effects, depending on the person's condition.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Becky
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| July 24, 2010 @ 9:35am | Well captured and so tiny.
It was interesting and somewhat amusing reading what you found in your research.
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