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The Gray's Papaya window - Corner of W 72 St & Amsterdam Ave - NYC

Rain on a parade

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NYPD parade duty must be annoying during rain.

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Clouds over the Conservatory

Corn-cockle (Agrostemma githago)

The Conservatory of the New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, New York City

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Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the Conservatory for spring 2008. The...

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Corn poppy "Shirley red" (Papaver rhoeas)

Bachelor's buttons, cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the Conservatory for spring 2008. The...

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Also called the "Jubilee Gem" Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the...

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"Darwin's Garden" exhibition

"Darwin's Garden" exhibition II

Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the Conservatory for spring 2008. The...

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Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the Conservatory for spring 2008. The...

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Alkanet (Anchusa azurea)

Mexican grass tree (Dasylirion quadrangulatum)

Part of the "Darwin's Garden" exhibition in the Conservatory for spring 2008. The...

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Native to northeaster Mexico

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Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii), detail

Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)

Native to central Mexico, there is indeed something somehow "grusonii" about this cactus....

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Purple prickly-pear (Opuntia santa-rita)

Dwarf Turk's cap cactus (Melocactus matanzanus), at right

Found from s.e. Arizona to w. Texas and n. Mexico

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Native to northern Cuba. It's plump leaves have a beautiful, soft pastel hue.

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Cleistocactus icosagonus

Plump tropical blossoms

Native to s. Ecuador and n. Peru, this cactus--remarkably--has no common name. I propose "Snake...

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A tropical blossom

Silver dollar fern, Peruvian maidenhair (Adiantum peruvianum)

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Native to Ecudor, Peru, and Boliva, this fern has smooth black stems.

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