[Theme] pattern - show your subtle structures of order

[Jakov Minić]

Thank you Francis!
Now that I have seen how CMYK looks like I feel much better.

Now here is a bit of structure, although not one I would be able to follow properly

[rosko]

Now here is a bit of structure, although not one I would be able to follow properly

That's a periodic elements table I never saw before !

Below, guess what ?

[Jakov Minić]

Francis, I am not certain what it is, but it doesn't look very appealing to me

[rosko]

Francis, I am not certain what it is, but it doesn't look very appealing to me

 

Well, many gourmet people would spend big money to flavor some food, though...

# 2014-1015's season average detail price per kilo : from 900 to 1000€ per kilo...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A fungus of some kind - truffles ?

[Jakov Minić]

Now it's an easy guess, caviar or fish eggs

[Akira]

I also think it is a sliced piece of truffle.

[rosko]

A fungus of some kind - truffles ?

Correct !

This is actually a cut of summer truffle (tuber aestivum) Pictured below.

Its much cheaper (half price) than the famous and sough after Tuber melanosporum and much less flavored.

[Thomas G]

solid::frame, bold & nut by lumofisk, on Flickr

[Bruno Schroder]

And one made by nature.

Great one. I've lots of them in the garden and never looked at them like that.

[rosko]

Thanks, Bruno !

Your garden must be very wet ?

This specie (Equisetum palustris) is very inconspicuous and always in water.

Rather uncommon.

When I am in the field, taking pictures of these plants, the rare walkers passing by, always ask me ''What are you shooting ?''

[Bjørn Rørslett]

"This specie (Equisetum palustris) is very inconspicuous and always in water.

Rather uncommon. "

Just a small correction. Your plant definitively is not E. palustris, but E. fluvatile. A plant of very wet meadows, slow flowing rivers and lake margins, able to growing to about 1.5 m depth under optimal conditions. It is a very common species at least in northern Europe.

[Bruno Schroder]

My garden is at the bottom of a valley and rather wet indeed, with Caltha palustris, Filipendula ulmaria and Iris pseudacorus but, you're right, not with this Equisetum. I have the more common E. arvense but there is a 1 meter high Equisetum station nearby which you and Bjørn make me think I should check next spring.   

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That "1 m high Equisetum" might be E. telmateia (see below). Easily recognised by its bright stem, puffed-up node sheaths, and the prolific occurrence of thin non-branched leaves. It prefers fertile soils usually not very damp.

[Bruno Schroder]

From memory, they look exactly like that, on the border of a stream, under few trees. A dense mix of thinner leaves than E. arvense