Red Buckeye

by Paul Rebmann

Title

Red Buckeye

Artist

Paul Rebmann

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Photograph - Photograph

Description

An extreme close-up of a single red buckeye flower.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
500 Views -1 Image a Day,
Beautiful Flowers Group,
F A A - Pixels - All Stars,
Floral Photography and Art
& Flowers
A frequent deciduous shrub or small tree of hammocks and rich mesic woods, sandhils, slopes, bluffs and ravines of the panhandle and the peninsula south into Sumter, Lake and Orange Counties of Florida. The range extends throughout the southeastern states, west into Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, north to Illinois, Kentucky - where it is listed as threatened - West Virginia and VIrginia, plus Ontario.
Red buckeye is the only shrub or small tree in Florida with palmately compound leaves of five leaflets. The leaflets are elliptic, finely toothed and 5-15 cm (2-6 in.) long. The flowers are borne in panicles and are typically red but sometimes red and yellow. The fruit is a light brown round capsule 3-6cm (1-1/8 - 2-3/8 in.) in diameter that splits open and contains several hard reddish-brown poisonous seeds.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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November 5th, 2015

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