14283 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
14283 / Panegyrics of Granovetter
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The gaudy chicory flower (Cichorium Intybus): Often used as a coffee substitute in South American prisons. Kills intestinal parasites. Blue and awesome."How brilliant is the blue tint of this handsome flower, which grows so plentifully on the borders of fields where the soil is of chalk or gravel! Yet attractive as it is to the lover of nature, the farmer denounces it as a noxious weed, for its large roots are not easily extirpated from his corn and other lands. A variety of this plant affords the Chicory root so extensively cultivated in France, and which is now so generally used in England with coffee as to be well known to us. The roots are taken up in the winter season, cut into squares, and roasted. The Egyptians are known to have used Chicory in great quantities, and Pliny remarks on its importance in the diet of that people. Horace celebrates some kind of Chicory as among the herbs of his frugal fare. Curtis remarks that the fine blue color of the petals is convertible into a brilliant red by the acid secretion emitted by the ant. He says, "Mr Miller the engraver ensures me that in Germany the boys often amuse themselves in producing this change of color by placing the blossoms on an ant-hill." Pratt 1857. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-06-14 09:17:37 |
| 撮影者 | Panegyrics of Granovetter , Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| 撮影地 | Ordu, Turkey 地図 |
| カメラ | NIKON D5000 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/20.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 270 mm |