Comments on: Life is Tenacious: Tiny Ocean Flowers http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marcina, USA http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35313 Marcina, USA Mon, 18 May 2009 12:27:21 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35313 “before my polarization filter inexplicably* fell off my camera and into the East China Sea” Sure, right. Looking for an excuse to upgrade, perhaps? “before my polarization filter inexplicably* fell off my camera and into the East China Sea”

Sure, right. Looking for an excuse to upgrade, perhaps?

]]> By: Grandma Friedl, Ohio, USA http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35312 Grandma Friedl, Ohio, USA Mon, 18 May 2009 11:30:55 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35312 Wow! Great comment, Peter. I might have observed that it appeared to be some kind of Daphne or something. Glad I didn't. Jeff, have you other photos showing more of the area around the plant, but a little less wide than the satellite view? Wow! Great comment, Peter. I might have observed that it appeared to be some kind of Daphne or something. Glad I didn’t. Jeff, have you other photos showing more of the area around the plant, but a little less wide than the satellite view?

]]> By: Peter in Wales http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35311 Peter in Wales Mon, 18 May 2009 09:46:05 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-17/1211#comment-35311 The plant seems to be <em>Hedyotis biflora</em>. According to Walker's <em>Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands</em>, the local name is <em>sonare-mugura</em>, and <em>sonare</em> is 'a contraction of <em>iso-nare</em>, from <em>iso</em>, beach, seashore or strand; and <em>nare</em>, a plant shaped by strong one-sided wind, referring to its seeming habit of shaping [itself] to conditions in its characteristic exposed habitat'. Just as in your photograph. The plant seems to be Hedyotis biflora.

According to Walker’s Flora of Okinawa and the Southern Ryukyu Islands, the local name is sonare-mugura, and sonare is ‘a contraction of iso-nare, from iso, beach, seashore or strand; and nare, a plant shaped by strong one-sided wind, referring to its seeming habit of shaping [itself] to conditions in its characteristic exposed habitat’. Just as in your photograph.

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