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[Port in Tasman Peninsula, Australia #1]

Description: Landscape photograph of a port in the Tasman Peninsula, Australia. A portion of a boat takes up the left side of the frame with its mooring line running diagonal from the top left corner to the bottom right corners. Various buildings and cars occupy the bottom portion with mountains in the distance.
Date: 1962-11~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Unidentified tree in Tasman Peninsula, Australia #1]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified tree and bushes in front of a body of water. The tree's trunk and leaves frame the right and top portions of the photograph, while the bush occupies the bottom left corner. A body of water and hills are visible in the background.
Date: 1962-11~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Micromeria helianthemifolia in Arguineguin, Canary Islands #1]

Description: Photograph of Micromeria helianthemifolia in Arguineguine, Canary Islands. A small shrubby plant growing in rocky crevices on a cliffside. Leaves are dense at the top and become sparse along the woody, slender, branched stem to the base. Red, green, and gray lichen grows on the rocks.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Schizogyne bush from Maspalomas, Canary Islands #1]

Description: Photograph of Schizogyne bush with dense, silvery-gray foliage, which is covered in fine, silky hairs. The leaves are small, narrow, and lanceolate, giving the plant a feathery appearance. They are densely packed along the stems. Yellow flower blooms are composite, with a central cluster of florets.
Date: May 18, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Echium bourgeauanum on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands #1]

Description: Photograph of Echium bourgeauanum (Tajinaste or Tower of Jewels). Two examples grow on an open, rocky slope and volcanic soil of El Tiede on Tenerife Island, Canary Islands. The plants have a striking, erect, stalk that is densely branched and covered with fuchsia-colored flowers that are tubular-shaped. The dense florets give a striking cylindrical shape to the stalk that taper towards the top. Leaves are arranged primarily at the base of the plant. The basal leaves are larger and lanceolate (… more
Date: June 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Salvia canariensis from Tafira Alta, Canary Islands #1]

Description: Photograph of Salvia canariensis (Canary Island sage) in Tafira Alta, Canary Islands. A shrubby bush with thick stems, dense with gray-green leaves, and taller stalks with flower clusters at the branch tips with violet-colored flowers that have calyces and bracts a redder rose-purple color
Date: 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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