January 2015, Transparencies

[John Dos]

Happy New Year to All!

The oblique rays of sunlight in winter may help to capture a sublime transparence - flowers, shadow on flowers, leaves, watercells, buds, even an ice crystal on a succulent.

Trichodiadema densum, from last year, may, . Out of competition!

[iann]

Oh no! People are going to be cutting up Lithops

Here, you can see through them while they live

[Chris L]

[lzrddr]

Haworthia cooperi

[John Dos]

Only four transparent plants out there?!

[Detlev]

Not a transparent plant, but I like to add this photo here: It shows a seed of Astrophytum coahuilense, the deeply impressed hilum region covered by a thin, more or less transparent membran, which is already partly ruptured.

[Sheila]

Hi,

I think that this is quite a challenging subject, but I've eventually found one late entry.

E-ctenoides.jpg (35.39 KiB) Viewed 4913 times

[JST]

Not sure if we are allowed photos from some while ago, but I always loved these Epithelantha seed pods

Epithelantha greggii (2) small.jpg (27.25 KiB) Viewed 4903 times

[John Dos]

And the winner is ..... Haworthia cooperi, congratulations Izrddr!

Special mention to the superb photograph of the Astrophytum seed by Detlev.
No Lithops was injured during this competition ... !