Think Tank

Trillium grandiforum

I'm doing an independent study for school where I'm collecting plants, identifying them and creating mounted herbarium specimens. I love doing any kind of identifying but plants are my favorite and I've wanted to do herbarium specimens since I first learned of them. There's no question what species this lovely showy trillium is, but I keyed it out anyway as practice. I definitely recommend to anyone learning to use dichotomous keys to key the organisms that you know, that's how learn where you are likely to make mistakes when you are keying out an unknown species.

That aside aside; I couldn't resist taking a sneak peek at this one, I think it turned out rather well given that it's a rather complex flower and it was one of the first I pressed.

Paint Me Away

Snake mantis, Kongobatha diademata, Nanomantidae

Photographed at Airlie Beach in Australia by Steve & Alison1