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Photo of the Day: Foxglove Flower In Chile

Purple Bell Flower

Foxglove Flower in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia Chile


We know we have given you this photo on our Travel Photo of the Day series before, but it is my personal favorite flower picture and I just had to included it in our flower and plant week.

Foxgloves are also called Witches’ Gloves, Dead Men’s Bells, Fairy’s Glove, Gloves of Our Lady, Bloody Fingers, Virgin’s Glove, Fairy Caps, Folk’s Glove, and Fairy Thimbles.  These are biennial plants and are tall, slender perennials at 2-5′ in height and just 1-2′ wide.  It is a very statuesque plant.  It has numerous tubular flowers blooming on a spike, ranging in color from purple to white.  Foxglove flowers appear in the summer months.  The flowers are bell-shaped and tubular, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches long, flattened above, inflated beneath, crimson outside above and paler beneath, the lower lip furnished with long hairs inside and marked with numerous dark crimson spots, each surrounded with a white border.  ~ Iflorist.co.uk

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arrow9 Responses

  1. 6 mos, 1 wk ago

    I need to take some micro photo lessons from ya´ll. Excellent.

  2. 6 mos, 1 wk ago

    Thanks Michael. Sometimes you just get lucky. ;-)

  3. 6 mos, 1 wk ago

    Sooooooo beautiful.

  4. 6 mos, 1 wk ago

    Great detail in the flower, nice work.

  5. 6 mos ago

    Great photo, I love the colors and detail

  6. 5 mos, 4 wks ago

    Love it!

  7. 5 mos, 3 wks ago

    Thanks! This is probably the most beautiful flower photo we have.

  8. 4 days, 8 hrs ago

    I always joke about the flower setting on my camera, but now I know why it’s there! Great work guys.

  9. 3 days, 13 hrs ago

    I must admit, I do enjoy taking the flower shots. And if you are not in macro mode it can be extremely difficult to focus on.

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