Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' European Holly
Description
- Title:
- Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' European Holly
- Caption / Description:
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Leaves and flower buds of Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' holly cultivar. This cultivar, despite its name, is actually male, and so has no berries. It is suitable for hedging, and with its varigated leaves also makes a good shrub.
Description from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aquifolium):
Ilex aquifolium (Holly, or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.
It is an evergreen tree growing to 10-25 m tall and 40-80 cm (rarely 1 m or more) trunk diameter, with smooth grey bark. The leaves are 5-12 cm long and 2-6 cm broad, variable in shape; on young plants and low branches, with three to five sharp spines on each side, pointing alternately upward and downward; on higher branches of older trees with few or no spines except for the leaf tip, often entire.
The flowers are dioecious, white, four-lobed, and pollinated by bees.
- Tags / Keywords:
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- Biota
- Life
- Vitae
- Eukaryota
- Plantae
- Plants
- Magnoliophyta
- Flowering Plants
- Angiosperms
- Magnoliopsida
- Dicotyledons
- Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen'
- Aquifoliales
- Aquifoliaceae
- Holly
- Ilex
- Ilex aquifolium
- European Holly
Admin
- Date Original Photo Taken:
- Original File Name:
- _MG_9304.CR2
- Event:
- Rating:
- ☆
- Date this image added/last updated on website:
- Original File Dimensions:
- 4272px x 2848px
- File Type:
- JPEG
- Color Mode:
- RGB
- Original Image Color Profile:
- Adobe RGB (1998)
Location
- Location Created:
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- Sublocation:
- City:
- Market Harborough
- Province/State:
- Leicestershire
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- World Region:
- Europe
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Rights
- Copyright Status:
- Copyrighted
- Licensing Status:
- Rights Managed
- Available for Editorial Use:
- Yes
- Available for Commercial Use:
- Yes
- Copyright Notice:
- © 2010 Dave Kennard
Camera Data
- Date Digital Resource was created:
- Shutter speed:
- 1⁄400 s
- Aperture:
- f/4
- Camera Model:
- Canon EOS 450D
- ISO:
- 100
- Exposure Compensation:
- -1/3
- Focal Length:
- 100mm
- Focal Length (35mm equiv.):
- Metering Mode:
- Multi-segment
- Flash:
- Off, Did not fire
- Exposure Mode:
- Auto
- White Balance:
- Manual
- Light Source:
- Exposure Program:
- Aperture-priority AE
Additional shooting metadata
- Lens:
- Canon EF 100mm F2.8 Macro USM
- Filters used:
- Additional Optics used:
- Setup:
- Handheld
Post Processing
- Image Modified:
- Software used:
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- Adobe Camera RAW
- Post Processing: