Naturally Blue
Looking To See was wondering what in nature is blue.
That had me looking through my snapshots - a lot are untagged so it is never a completely pointless exercise, even if this thread strictly is. Turns out I have a lot of evidence of blue. I'll update this when I feel like it, and other members should also feel free to add their photos (but not stuff from the web, that would spoil it). Please correct any IDs as appropriate. 🙂
Right. Some of the commonest blue things in nature are flowers so here's for starters...
Exhibit #1:
Wood Forget Me Not (Myosotis sylvatica)
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*scratches head*... i would call those purple. they're all over my garden.
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Nice one Titanium!
English bluebells are traditionally very blue. The Spanish invaders are much more purple, and a lot of our bluebells are now hybrids.
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A lot of butterflies are blue (many of them in the Lycaenidae).This one isn't by any means the most strikingly blue but since I happen to have a decent shot, from Cornwall last year...
Silver-Studded Blue (Plebejus argus):
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BLUEBERRIES!! *facepalm*
just had some. yum! dyou like the fatter ones or the smaller ones?
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[quote=Looking To See]BLUEBERRIES!! *facepalm*
just had some. yum! dyou like the fatter ones or the smaller ones?[/quote]
I think the fatter ones. Not sure. 🙂
But I feel guilty eating foreign fruit.
[quote=Titanium]Gorgeous Butterfly!!! How can you get so close without frightening the lil thing?[/quote]
Now and again they seem fairly oblivious if I'm very quiet, and I take shots with the zoom before I try to get close.
[quote]More blue flowers, these are nettle flowers (canny remember the proper name, Joie will know)[/quote]
I thought they were indeed stinging nettle flowers, since I picked one up confidently declaring it was some kind of dead-nettle and held it to my nose expecting it to smell minty, and stung my nose and fingers. 🙂
But it was Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens). idk nuffin.
i never seen those in my LIFE! they're so....BLUE!