Naturally Blue

Joie de Vivre —

Looking To See was wondering what in nature is blue.

That had me looking through my snapshots - a lot are untagged so it is never a completely pointless exercise, even if this thread strictly is. Turns out I have a lot of evidence of blue. I'll update this when I feel like it, and other members should also feel free to add their photos (but not stuff from the web, that would spoil it). Please correct any IDs as appropriate. 🙂

Right. Some of the commonest blue things in nature are flowers so here's for starters...

Exhibit #1:

Wood Forget Me Not (Myosotis sylvatica)

http://i43.tinypic.com/2vwsn40.jpg

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Joie de Vivre Fri, 14 Jun 2013 - 00:23

Nice one Titanium!

English bluebells are traditionally very blue. The Spanish invaders are much more purple, and a lot of our bluebells are now hybrids.

Joie de Vivre Fri, 14 Jun 2013 - 00:33

A lot of butterflies are blue (many of them in the Lycaenidae).This one isn't by any means the most strikingly blue but since I happen to have a decent shot, from Cornwall last year...

Silver-Studded Blue (Plebejus argus):

http://i44.tinypic.com/30i9xmf.jpg

LookingToSee Sat, 15 Jun 2013 - 18:18

BLUEBERRIES!! *facepalm*

just had some. yum! dyou like the fatter ones or the smaller ones?

Joie de Vivre Sat, 15 Jun 2013 - 23:31

Looking To SeeBLUEBERRIES!! *facepalm*

just had some. yum! dyou like the fatter ones or the smaller ones?

I think the fatter ones. Not sure. 🙂

But I feel guilty eating foreign fruit.

TitaniumGorgeous Butterfly!!! How can you get so close without frightening the lil thing?

Now and again they seem fairly oblivious if I'm very quiet, and I take shots with the zoom before I try to get close.

More blue flowers, these are nettle flowers (canny remember the proper name, Joie will know)

I thought they were indeed stinging nettle flowers, since I picked one up confidently declaring it was some kind of dead-nettle and held it to my nose expecting it to smell minty, and stung my nose and fingers. 🙂

But it was Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens). idk nuffin.

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