L E AVES
PLANT LIFE
Preface
Preface
This publication aims to show you the deeper and inner nature our habitat confines within leaves, through high-resolution scans and photography. The purpose of this publication is to act as a guide or encyclopedia to identifying different kinds of leaves. Seeing the richer value and beauty in leafs can’t always be as easy as you think, so showing you my methodological research of leaf’s as large images helps you see them in a another way. This publication is just a limited run, so there’s not many of them.
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Preface Contents Introduction Tree Leaves Plant & Flower Leaves Appendix Contents 4
Introduction
Introduction This project aims to entertain the reader in a way that helps them discover the beauty within leaves, wonder over their clarity and act as a resource to their existence. The subject of leaves is quite special and charming due to their delicacy and appeal, as well as their subtle nature and positive existence in our lives. Looking at presenting that appeal and beauty to the reader through high resolution scans and photographs as a stylistic method to approach the subject, gives the project the substance it needs. My inspiration came from the book titled “Flora” by Nick Knight a photographer involved in contemporary culture and photography. I was captivated by the large images and wonderful definition you found in each shot, as well as the anxiety to discover every feature on the page. So I based my project on similar principals but changed the format to a smallscaled publication or ‘zine’ that would assist the home and the user as well as being a part of the plant life series of posters and publications.
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Tree Leaves
Tree Leaves Sweet Chestnut Guelder-Rose Grey Willow Wild Pear Hornbeam
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Sweet Chestnut Castanea sativa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fagaceae, native to Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. A substantial, longlived deciduous tree, it produces an edible seed, the chestnut, which has been used in cooking since ancient times.
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Guelder-rose The common name ‘guelder rose’ relates to the Dutch province of Gelderland, where a popular cultivar, the snowball tree, supposedly originated. Other common names include water elder, cramp bark, snowball tree and European cranberry bush, though this plant is not closely related to the cranberry.
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Grey Willow The grey willow distribution is mostly Atlantic from Western Europe and North Africa to some Mediterranean islands, and in North Africa. Naturally growing in Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, it is very common in the Iberian Peninsula, and is also found in Corsica. The species hybridizes readily with other species of willow and many hybrids have been identified. It flowers from January until March or April, depending on location, with the spread of seeds ripening from April to March.
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Wild Pear Pyrus pyraster (syn. Pyrus communis subsp. pyraster), also called European Wild Pear, is a species of pear belonging to the Rosaceae family. This wild pear and Pyrus caucasica (syn. P. communis subsp. caucasica) are thought to be the ancestors of the cultivated European pear. Both the wild pears are interfertile with domesticated pears. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish Pyrus pyraster from a common pear. Pyrus pyraster can reach an age of 100 to 150 years.
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Hornbeam Hornbeams (Carpinus betulus L.) are relatively small hardwood trees in the genus Carpinus. Though some botanists grouped them with the hazels (Corylus) and hop-hornbeams (Ostrya) in a segregate family, Corylaceae, modern botanists place the hornbeams in the birch subfamily Coryloideae. The 30–40 species occur across much of the north temperate regions, with the greatest number of species in east Asia, particularly China. Only two species occur in Europe, and only one in eastern North America.
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Plant & Flower Leaves
Plant & Flowe Leaves
Shefflera
Spathiphyllum Crassula Ovata Frog-bit Philodendron Dandelion Red Amaryllis Croton 23
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Shefflera Shefflera are easilly recognisible because theu have glossy, strudy-looking oval leave that almost look unreal because of their waxy shine. They’re really hard an long-lasting, so they make great investment plants as long as you keep the leaves dust-free and wipe them down once in a while. In addition to looking great, they’re also known to soak up nasty toxins like benzene, formaldehyde and toluene so, like palms, they’re good for households where theres a smoker.
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Spathiphyllum Several species are popular indoor houseplants. Spathiphyllum cleans indoor air of many environmental contaminants, including benzene, formaldehyde, and other pollutants. It lives best in shade and needs little sunlight to thrive.
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Crassula Ovata Crassula ovata, commonly known as jade plant, friendship tree, lucky plant, or money tree is a succulent plant with small pink or white flowers. It is native to South Africa, and is common as a houseplant worldwide. It is sometimes referred to as the money tree; however Pachira aquatica also receives this nickname.
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Frog-bit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, frogbit, is a flowering plant belonging to the genus Hydrocharis in the family Hydrocharitaceae. In North America, it is referred to as common frogbit or European frog’s-bit to distinguish it from the related American Frogbit (Limnobium spongia). It is a small floating plant resembling a small water lily. It bears small, three-petalled white flowers. The floating leaves are kidney-shaped and grow in rosettes on the water surface, with the roots hanging down into the water column but not normally touching bottom. Frogbit is fast growing and spreads rapidly by stolons, surviving the winter as dormant turions which rest on the bottom, rising again to the surface in spring.
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Philodendron Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family, consisting of about 900 species according to TROPICOS (a service of the Missouri Botanical Garden). Regardless of number of species, the genus is the second-largest member of the arum family. Taxonomically, the genus Philodendron is still poorly known, with many undescribed species. Many are grown as ornamental and indoor plants. The name derives from the Greek words philo or “love” and dendron or “tree”. They are commonly called by their generic name.
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Dandelion Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North and South America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide. Both species are edible in their entirety. The common name dandelion , from French dent-de-lion, meaning “lion’s tooth”) is given to members of the genus, and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant.
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Red Amaryllis Amaryllis is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of the Western Cape region of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest area between the Olifants River Valley to Knysna. For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name “amaryllis” is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors. Plants of the genus Amaryllis are known as belladonna lily, Jersey lily, naked lady, amarillo or, in South Africa, March lily due to its propensity to flower around March. This is one of numerous genera with the common name “lily” due to their flower shape and growth habit. However, they are only distantly related to the true lily, Lilium.
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Croton Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also refers to Codiaeum variegatum. The generic name comes from the Greek (kroton), which means “tick� and refers to the shape of the seeds of certain species
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Appendix: 1. Crasula Ovata, page 29 Crassulaceae Family 2. Croton, page 41 Euphorbiacea Family 3. Dandelion, page 37 Taraxacum, Asteraceae Family 4. Frog-bit, page 31 Hydrocharis, Hydrocharitaceae Family
Appendix
5. Grey Willow, page 15 S. c. oleifolia 6. Guelder-Rose, page 13 Viburnum opulus, Adoxaceae Family 7. Hornbeam, page 19
Carpinus Betulus, Coryloideae Family 8. Philodendron, page 33 Araceae Family 9. Red Amaryllis, page 39 10. Shefflera, page 25 Araliaceae Family 11. Spathiphyllum, page 27 Araceae Family 12. Sweet Chestnut, page 11 Castabea Sative, Fagacea Family 43
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LEAVES A photographic resource book for leafs.
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