This is a photo of a tropical orange mushroom sprouted from a dead log . Species unidentified. This fungi is definitely not edible.
Related topics:
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 1
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 2
* Tiny mushroom - Toad stool - Fungi, Series 3
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 4
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 5
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 6
* Tropical Wild Mushroom, Fungi, Series 7
Archispirostreptus gigas, the giant African millipede, is one of the largest of the millipedes, growing up to 11 in (28 cm) in length. It lives in tropical and subtropical Africa, in rotting plant life or moist earth, and usually avoids light. It is black in colour, and is often kept as a pet (would you?).
Asia giant millipede with hundred of crawler legs
Close head shot of Asia giant millipede
Asia giant millipede curled
Archispirostreptus gigas, the giant African millipede, is one of the largest of the millipedes, growing up to 11 in (28 cm) in length. It lives in tropical and subtropical Africa, in rotting plant life or moist earth, and usually avoids light. It is black in colour, and is often kept as a pet (would you?).
Millipedes (Class Diplopoda, previously also known as Chilognatha) are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs). Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one.
Most millipedes have very elongated cylindrical bodies, although some are flattened dorso-ventrally, while pill millipedes are shorter and can roll into a ball, like a pillbug. Millipedes are detritivores and slow moving. Most millipedes eat decaying leaves and other dead plant matter, moisturising the food with secretions and then scraping it in with the jaws.
Millipedes do not actually have a thousand legs - they usually have between 100-400 (2 sets of legs per body segment). Each time they molt, they add more segments and therefore more legs. Male millipedes have specialized legs used for fertilization on the seventh body segment called gonopods.
Related posts:
* Flat-back Tractor Millipede - Polydesmid
This post is about some close up photo shot of lemon flower. Lemon fruit is the common name for (Citrus limon). The reproductive tissue surrounds the seed of the angiosperm lemon tree. The lemon is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world. The fruit is used primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind (zest) are also used, primarily in cooking and baking. Lemon juice is about 5% (approximately 0.03 moles/Liter) citric acid, which gives lemons a tart taste, and a pH of 2 to 3. This makes lemon juice an inexpensive, readily available acid for use in educational science experiments.
Purplish lemon flower
Lemon flower bud blooming with white petals.
A shot on a moth perched on petals of a ginger flower called Zingiberaceae.
Etlingera elatior (Zingiberaceae) or bunga kantan which is locally used to spice up curries, salad and laksa fish soup.
This is the third series on red spotted weevil or a leave beetle (Chrysomelidae).
Red Spotted Weevil on a leave
Red Spotted Weevil on a grass blade
Red Spotted Weevil perched on my left thumb
Red Spotted Weevil on a balancing act
YouTube Red Spotted Weevil
Weevil Colony
Related posts:
*Red Weevil-like Insect - Series #1
* Tropical weevil - Leave bettle (Chrysomelidae) - Series #2
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These photos are macro shot of Ixora coccinea's petal with tiny water droplets (from morning dew).
Ixora is also known as the Jungle Geranium, Flame of the Woods, and Jungle Flame.
Red Ixora petal with water droplets
Red Ixora petal with water droplets - part 2
X marked the spot. Red Ixora petal with water droplets - part 3
Related posts:
* Ixora coccinea flower, Flame of the Woods, Jungle Flame
* Black butterfly, Yellow Ixora
Another photo series on wild sex (or insect pornography). These are photo of flea beetles or leave beetles. Watch out for the couple circle in red. It was quite a challenging shot due to the fact that the beetle couple keep on moving !
Leave beetle couple
Closer shot: Leave beetle mating
Leave beetle mating
Zero macro: Leave beetle mating silhouette
Related insect-porn posts:
* Wild Sex - Photo Of Mating Green Bugs
* Wild sex - Mating moths photo
* Wild weevil sex
* Green tropical bugs mating
* Housefly Sex, Series #2
* Adventure of two flies (Fi and Fo)
This post showcases a Platycerium plant from the fern species in the Polypod family, locally known as "Pokok Tanduk Rusa" or Deer's Horn (or Staghorn Fern) plant. In addition, Chinese called this plant as 金鱼尾巴厂 or Gold Fish Tail Plant.
This special plant is an air-plant, i.e. it does grow on the ground and it the wild, it can only be found on top of high trees. It squat on tree but it's not a parasitic plant. The interesting thing about this Platycerium sporophytes (adult plants) is that it have tufted roots growing from a short rhizome that bears two types of fronds, basal and fertile fronds. Basal fronds are sterile, shield or kidney shaped and laminate against the tree and protect the fern's roots from damage and desiccation.
In some Platycerium species the top margin of these fronds forms an open crown of lobes and thereby catches falling forest litter and water. Fertile fronds bear spores on their undersurface, are dichotomous or antler shaped (deer's horn) and jut out or hang from the rhizome (gold fish tail).
Water droplets dangling on the Deer's Horn (pokok tanduk rusa) plant.
See the tail? Gold Fish Tail plant. From Deer's Horn is grow into Gold Fish Tail.
Fresh Deer's Horn off-shoot emerging from the plant cluster.
Reference:
* Botany.com: Platycerium - Staghorn Fern
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