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Posted by ben.blakey on June 30, 2011, 8:07 am
 
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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction in
finding non copyrighted flower images.

I'm looking for 3, 5, and 9 petaled flowers?

Thanks

Ben




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ben.blakey


Posted by kay on June 30, 2011, 10:21 am
 
ben.blakey;928548 Wrote:

3 and 5 petalled flowers occur widely in Nature, but I don't know of any
flowers which have 9 petals - you'd be looking for a semi-double which
by chance had 9 petals.




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kay


Posted by Stewart Robert Hinsley on June 30, 2011, 11:53 am
 
Flowering plants probably started off with flowers with floral parts in
whorls of threes. That's still the case for some lineages, so it would
be just a matter of finding one with three whorls of petaloid organs.

You could probably find a Magnolia with 9 petals. Drimys winteri has a
variable number of petals, but 9 is within its range. However nearer to
home Ficaria verna syn Ranunculus ficaria (lesser celandine) also has a
variable number of petals, with a range including 9.

You could also find Lewisias with 9 petals, and perhaps cacti and water
lilies, as well as assorted magnoliids.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

Posted by mogga on July 1, 2011, 7:06 am
 On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:07:24 +0000, ben.blakey


Get camera.
Go for walk.
Knock on doors of gardens with pretty flowers
say "can I take some photos of your lovely flowers?"
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Posted by Mike Lyle on July 1, 2011, 4:13 pm
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But if Ben's less confident in his own photography, there may be
something useful among the copyright-free images at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons

There may well be other public-domain collections on the Net, but I
don't actually know.

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Mike.