Ironwood Flower by PatGoltz
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Description
Olneya tesota.
The ironwood is one of the hardest woods known. In spite of this, the Seri Indians use it to carve many beautiful sculptural designs, of which I have several. I have no idea how they do it.
The flower shows that this plant is classified in the pea family. This shot makes the flower look really large, so I should mention that it is not even 1/2" long.
Southern Arizona, USA
Comments (5)
Very nice shot. Aloha
That's very interesting to me as I had quite a large amount of ironwood, found in an old lumber yard many years ago. Almost impossible to work with, and none of the five or so mills in Edmonton would cut any for me as it damages their saws, I eventually sold most of it to a young fellow named (believe it or not) Jason Woodhead. This wood when freshly cut will not even float, it is so dense. Where they harvest this stuff in the jungles, they usually tie an ironwood log to two balsa logs to float them out. Love your photo!
beautiful flower, great colors, lighting and dof
cool -- if you have, it would be interesting to see the wood/tree with the flower for an idea of scale. You are right, I would have guessed it to be much larger than 1/2 inch!!!!
Lovely close-up