Irish Pride Day!

Hop Clover Aureum

I remember coloring shamrock outlines in grade school. I didn't know until later in life that the shamrock was related to many plants that I knew.  The characteristics include three leaflets we might call leaves.  Like peas it is a legume plant which puts nitrogen back into the soil.  It is edible and nutritious.

Trifolium dubium AKA Lesser Hop Clover

   I have hop clover growing in my front yard.  The yard man wants to kill it but I try to save its life.  When you get to be my age you take what you can get.

Trifolium hybridum, Alsike Clover

I saw some discussion about Alsike Clover being poisonous but I think it was just for horses.  My father sowed Alsike Clover along with Red Clover and alfalfa and probably others when he sowed oats.  It was only cows for which he planted it.

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White False Indigo

White False Indigo

White False Indigo is a perennial plant growing, mostly around the Southwest end of the pond at Gorman.  It is a legume like peas and beans.  Unlike peas and beans it grows from a rhizomatous root system.  It grows rather tall, up to six feet, and has white flowers each resembling a snapdragon.
It requires some work for a bee to invade the space inside which contains nectar.  Most bumble bees I have seen seem to think it is worth the effort.




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Bultfonteinite

Bultfonteinite

Bultfonteinite, originally dutoitspanite, is a pink to colorless mineral with chemical formula Ca₂SiO₂(OH,F)_{4   Wikipedia}

This sample it from Nchwaning Mine, Kalahari M. F., 

R.S.A.  The location is Republic Of South Africa.  I feel certain the "m and f" after Kalahari means manganese fields.

Bultfonteinite

The image at the top is FOV 4.25mm and 5.53x on the sensor.  The second image is FOV 3.577mm and 6.58x on the sensor.

Bultfonteinite

The FOV for the third image is 4.17mm and 5.53x on the sensor.

I don't suppose I would have guessed that crystals form in bundles like these do.  Later, we will look a more crystals which form in an elongated fashion.

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