Untitled flower scan, Katinka Matson

An untitled work by Katinka Matson, via John Brockman and EDGE.org. The artist's site is here, and you can view a larger-size image here (fun to gaze at on an iPad, I think).

Update: Boing Boing reader Jennifer Forman Orth, Ph.D., who is an Invasive Plant Ecologist, says, "That's actually a scan of the seedheads of a Clematis vine. So not a flower, not anymore - already pollinated and gone to fruit. But a small technicality for that beautiful image."

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We call this plant “Old Man’s Beard” in New Zealand.
- http://twitter.com/janh1 Jan
  
  We do in the UK too! Clouds of it in the hedgerows. Lovely.
apoxia

Here’s a photo of my own (I couldn’t seem to add this as an edit to my original post).
Ito Kagehisa

These things are one of the reasons I own a flamethrower.

The seedheads are pretty, though.
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Gorgeous, Xeni. Thank you.
bocomo

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