The Color Purple
by Sandi OReilly
Title
The Color Purple
Artist
Sandi OReilly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This Hydrangea was taken in this purple color in camera filter, no outside editing done.
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Hydrangea flowers are produced from early spring to late autumn; they grow in flowerheads (corymbs or panicles) at the ends of the stems. In many species, the flowerheads contain two types of flowers, small fertile flowers in the middle of the flowerhead, and large, sterile bract-like flowers in a ring around the edge of each flowerhead. Other species have all the flowers sterile and of the same size.
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In most species the flowers are white, but in some species (notably H. macrophylla), can be blue, red, pink, light purple, or dark purple. In these species the color is affected by soil pH.[2][3] For H. macrophylla and H. serrata cultivars, the flower color can be determined by the relative acidity of the soil: an acidic soil (pH below 6) will usually produce flower color closer to blue, whereas an alkaline soil (pH above 6) will produce flowers more pink. This is caused by a color change of the flower pigments in the presence of aluminium ions which can be taken up into hyperaccumulating plants.
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Nature photography by Sandi O'Reilly, All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted. For any questions, please feel free to email me through FAA's email service, glad to help.
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October 16th, 2011
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Comments (40)
Hanne Lore Koehler
Fantastic capture of this remarkable hydrangea, Sandi! Love the color and light in this beautiful composition! L/F
Sandi OReilly
Benanne, thank you very much for featuring this image in North Carolina Photographers!! So appreciate it!!