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Most Photogenic Plant?

Another selfless post to see non-CPs and some CPs! The title says it all, What do you consider the most photogenic plant? Examples are wanted! I'm not talking about the best photo you've taken, but the plant that you see the most and think I MUST take a photo of that!

I'll start, my vote would be Begonias. Here are some examples I took this morning.
Begonia limprichtii
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478584@N08/5520275271/" title="Begonia limprichtii Flower and Plant by randallssimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/5520275271_c71fff4fd6_z.jpg" width="428" height="640" alt="Begonia limprichtii Flower and Plant" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478584@N08/5520867058/" title="Begonia limprichtii Flower 1 by randallssimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5520867058_45d4526eaa_z.jpg" width="428" height="640" alt="Begonia limprichtii Flower 1" /></a>
Begonia crispula
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478584@N08/5520867012/" title="Begonia crispula Flower 2 by randallssimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5520867012_ebbf943205_z.jpg" width="428" height="640" alt="Begonia crispula Flower 2" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478584@N08/5520867092/" title="Begonia crispula Flower 1 by randallssimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5520867092_59e6a35eb6_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="Begonia crispula Flower 1" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478584@N08/5520867034/" title="Begonia crispula Flower 3 by randallssimpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5100/5520867034_6585fb77e6_z.jpg" width="640" height="428" alt="Begonia crispula Flower 3" /></a>
 
Man, nice photography! Well done sir. And begonias are beautiful.

Personally, I lean towards more menacing-lookin plants. These are two I just can't get enough of:

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Cylindropuntia bigelovii -- Teddy bear cholla

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Opuntia littoralis -- Prickly pear cactus

I took these photos while visiting my sister in Tucson last May. I just loooove desert plants!
 
a hard one....prolly a three way tie.....

Seedgrown Nepenthes hamata.
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Heliamphora heterodoxa x minor.
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And Cephalotus.
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Seriously...I can stare at those three for hours. :0o:
 
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The cactus in that first photo looks scary.
 
Ok so heres some of mine.
N. spectabilis x aristolochioides






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GahhhhhHHhhH I love that N. spectabilis x aristolochioides. What gorgeous pitchers. I just ordered myself one online on a total impulse. I hope I can give it a good home - I'm told they're pretty tolerant plants. It will be years before mine looks anything like yours, though! Nice work!
 
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I will get pics tomorrow.
 
My old Jatropha podagrica, when it was in active growth, had a certain rare charm. It looked... jovial. I lost it a little over a year ago, but have one seedling that's on it's way to being a real gem like its momma. I'll snap a pic tomorrow when the lights come back on. I have similar feelings about my Euphorbia milli, but I don't know how well it would photograph - it's more one of those weird-looking plants that make you do a double-take and want to look at it up close.
This is J. podagrica - not my pic though. Mine looked a lot like this, but had an almost spherical caudex with a single stem growing straight up out of the top.
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~Joe
 
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That is a really cool plant Joe! I'll have to get one someday.

Definitely my biggest photo-hog plant used to be my pride and joy N. bicalcarata. (I don't own it anymore)

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But now it's definitely my N. spectabilis x talangensis

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But I've never seen a Yellow Cedar that didn't want to get its picture taken by me.

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^^ that last cedar pic is crazy!
 
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Sweet pics Dex! There are some crazy cedars in the forest on my college campus - I should really take my camera out there some time. There's one that seems to have caught a log in midair. It's hard to put into words. When I first came across it I was hiking around the woods at night with my headlamp on, and I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on - there was this huge log ten or fifteen feet long, upright, suspended in the air about twenty feet above me. Seems like a cedar grew on some stump and attached itself to another tree, then the other tree died but part of its trunk was still stuck to the cedar. Or something. Yes, I'll definitely have to get a pic... thanks for reminding me! :)
~Joe
 
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Thanks seedjar, you should totally take a picture of it, because with the way cedars grow, words cannot describe!

Just a few more Tree pics and I swear I'm done hijacking this thread, but they are such photogenic plants!

Just a couple more Yellow Cedar - this one dead

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This one still living, just take a good look at its trunk.

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And a few Red Cedar, which have their own very unique appeal.

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Thuja plicata
 
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Those are some crazy trees, I'd say they are perfect for this thread.
 
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Sometimes the setting can make the most ubiquitous CP look good...

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mobile, that's awesome. Looks like a pic straight out of The Savage Garden.
 
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I'm waiting for Butch to post some pictures of Drosera graomogolensis.
 
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"Baby" Jatropha podagrica (as in, about five years old - spent a couple years stubbornly refusing to grow any leaves or get bigger.)
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These little leaves can grow to the size of dinnerplates, and on a warm, bright day with adequate water can easily double or triple in size over the course of the afternoon.
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Glandular growths on the youngest sections of stem secrete a sticky irritant.
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If that weren't strange enough, the ripened fruits scatter their seeds by exploding! No pics of that, sadly.
Next up, Euphorbia milli in full bloom.
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Even without flowers, the crown has a wonderfully bizarre appearance, with floppy leaves and undulating rows of menacing, but surprisingly rubbery, spines.
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Probably the most unique feature of E. milli is its tiered flowers. The flowers don't actually grow out of one another - the pink parts are actually bracts. Those little yellow circles in the center of each one are the true petals.
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And a wide-angle shot, since I'm photospamming anyways. This corner shelf is where all of my oversized succulents live at the moment. It's in my bedroom, and the lights on a timer serve as my alarmclock. Formerly my highland Neps served that function, but when they started to vine I moved them into the living room where they could have more things to climb on. There are still a few Neps on this rack, since I've got more than I know what to do with, as well as some smaller succulents and my finicky "Hummer's Giant" cutting to make use of the extra light spilling to the sides.
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Quite a few of my stranger plants are on this shelf. Somehow, since my CP collection has ballooned so much, Neps and sundews and such just don't seem that unusual anymore. XD
~Joe
 
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Woah......those are awesome....and the Jatropha podagrica....that has to be the coolest non-cp I've ever seen. :awesome:
 
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Wow, I really need to get myself another crown of thorns...
 
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