Plant close-ups

In this gallery I show my close up photos of plants as well as part of plants, blossoms, leaves, fruits... These photos have been taken during my travels to different places in the world. So they include plants native to Europe as well as plants native to the U.S.A. or New Zealand.

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Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

Stems to 50cm, smooth, hollow. Leaves to 35cm, cylindrical, hollow. Flowers purple, in dense, spherical umbel, 1.5-5cm across; spathe as long as or shorter than umbel; stamens not protruding. Habitat Rocky hill pastures, coastal grasslands, on limestone or basic igneous rocks; also widely naturalized as casual escape from cultivation on tips and roadsides. Distilled. Native. Rare and very scattered. Cornwall, North England, South Wales, Ireland (E Co. Mayo). (All Europe except S.) Flowers June-July

Source: Collins Flower Guide, David Streeter, HarperCollins Publishers, London 2009 pg 656 (picture pg 657)

chives Allium schoenoprasum Norway Oslo www.LilleUlven.com 20170603 115757 Allium schoenoprasum Bogstad Gård Eastern Norway Europe Liliaceae NO NOR blossom plant environment flowering plant genre macrophotography nature photography plant travel photography