cracked lens
Camera: Canon EOS 10D
Lens: Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Focal Length: 100mm
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/60 sec
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Diffuse Flash
Tripod: Yes
Ophrys cornuta (Orchidaceae) is, at least amongst the more typical forms of its near relatives, a contrary looking flower. Its lateral lobes are thrust forward, protruding like little pairs of lances toward all that approach. And yet these blooms are some of the most elegant in the genus, their lobes sometimes reaching impressive, delicately long proportions.
This population is lonely though, numbering mere tens of plants and representing the only known Italian stand.
Through Greece and into Asia Minor, similar plants certainly do exist, but these are, some believe, an independent species, Ophrys scolopax, making the individual you see an even rarer expression of nature.
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