| Gynandriris Sisyrinchium | [ Sizes: Orig | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
Gynandriris Sisyrinchium, (iridaceae fam.)
What a long name for a so little flower!
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[ Post a Comment ]| Mark Straub | Nice color! | | 
Voted 10/10 | The contrast is very good in this picture. I really like the way that the color of the flower stands up where there is no more elsewhere.
-Mark | | Posted Jan 17, 2008 6:02 pm |
 | | banzai.barbara | Re: Nice color! | | 
Hasn't voted | thanks, I truly appreciate your comments Mark...and I like the way you look attentively to every detail in a picture. you seem to understand what's the "feeling" behind every shot. | | Posted Jan 21, 2008 1:47 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: It would rival the best shots so far | |
Hasn't voted | thank you very much. I'll add it to the album. :-) :-)
Nice one, by the way. I didn't know that. | | Posted Apr 22, 2008 1:30 pm |
| | MOCKBA | Re: It would rival the best shots so far | | 
Voted 10/10 | I really like tarol's collection of wildflowers grouped by taxonomy ... only the list is so long now, maybe it's time to split it up.
Could you take a look at this picture of mine - is it the same Gynandriris? Strange name ... I would translate it from Greek as "Female and Male Eye" 8O ... and the "normal" name is castagnole? | | Posted Apr 22, 2008 5:19 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: It would rival the best shots so far | |
Hasn't voted | I definitely think that's the same flower. In Italy it's aka "castagnola" or "giglio dei poveretti" (sounds like "lily of the poor"). Its sardinian name is "lillixieddu asulu aresti" that sounds like "blue wild lily".
I liked your translation from Greek the most, though. ;-)
ciao.
barbara | | Posted Apr 23, 2008 10:23 am |
| | MOCKBA | Re: lillixieddu asulu | |
Voted 10/10 | I liked the Hebrew "lily of the afternoon" too, nice little story about the life of the flower :)
You really live in Sardinia or just visit there? A few years back we had a project on Sardinian population genetics but of course it is one of those out-of-the-way places which people study but never see with their own eyes :) | | Posted Apr 23, 2008 5:42 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: lillixieddu asulu | |
Hasn't voted | I think I remeber the project you're talking about: Scientists sampled teeth from about 50 skulls they found in a burial inside a cave to obtain DNA sequences of the Nuragic population living in the Island in late bronze-iron Age. They compared this "ancient" DNA to the "modern" one of the sardinians living here nowadays, trying to determinate how "nuragic" we still could be - :)- and what changed in our genetics along with subsequent migratory process. I thought that was so interesting and it really surprised me finding out that we have genetically more in common with Basques, Scandinavians (even the Anatolians!) than with Etruscans and "Italians" that live closer to us. I thought that was amazing and I would love to know more about it. Could you give some more info? thanks!!! :)
ciao. | | Posted Apr 24, 2008 12:41 pm |
| | MOCKBA | Re: 53 Nuragic teeth? | |
Voted 10/10 | Cool project but no it wasn't ours (and it is much more recent, they published it in 2007). We've been hunting for disease genes together with a local consortium from Cagliari... and the gene hunters only brag about their projects when they actually catch something really cool :) Which didn't happen.
Genetic ancestry sleuths are much more lucky. No matter what they find, they brag all over the place about it :)
The Nuragic comparison was, IMVHO, not really susprising. That's because those burial were "only" 3000 years old, and the most intriguing things in the genetic history of Sardinians happened earlier (It was already known that Catalans and peninsular Italians left only limited genetic traces). But there has been so much migration of peoples on the Mediterranean shores that it's still impossible to make good sense of, say, comparisons between Sardinians and Anatolians. The two areas are very far from each other, but there might have been a closer link ... but we just can't spot it yet! Basques are very special though. Even though they weren't on some island, they remained in one place for incredibly long time, most likely even longer than the ancestral Sardinians. | | Posted Apr 24, 2008 4:16 pm |
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