African Iris as a Pair

Posted by Monte Stevens (Fort Collins, United States) on 3 April 2008 in Plants & Nature and Portfolio.

An African Iris taken in garden area outside the LSU Museum of Art. Part of the enjoyment I get from the traveling I do is discovering new plants and flowers. Even though I know very little about them I enjoy discovering them. Sometimes the scent will captivate me or the colors or the patterns. They are exotic white flowers with yellow and purple-blue burst markings with iris-like evergreen foliage. The three petals and three similar sepals of iris flowers are collectively called tepals. I never knew that, now I know.

NIKON D100
4/3000 seconds
F/7.1
292 mm

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