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22-Jan-2025 Margaret Roddy

Ivy

With its late flowers and berries, ivy is an important source of food for birds and insects during the winter months

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
1/400s f/3.5 at 150.0mm iso800 full exif

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Julie Oldfield24-Jan-2025 02:06
It looks like blueberries. Great macro.
laine23-Jan-2025 09:27
I'm sure they will be welcomed by the hungry ones. Great detail here.
Carl Carbone23-Jan-2025 02:22
Interesting fruit. Nice closeup.
Liz Bickel23-Jan-2025 01:47
PS Very nicely photographed image.
Liz Bickel23-Jan-2025 01:47
Your ivy sure looks different than the English ivy I'm used to seeing. Very interesting plant and berries. Kind of sad that it is so poisonous to mammals.
Alan K23-Jan-2025 00:36
I'd never thought of ivy as a food plant. (Which is fortunate since it's mildly poisonous to humans and toxic to other animals like dogs, cats and horses. Birds are OK with it, though.) Nor had I ever seen ivy berries before, so you learn something new every day.
In fact I rarely see ivy around here... oh, THAT's why. "English Ivy has been recognised as a serious environmental weed in several states of Australia". It exists here, I'm sure I've seen it occasionally, but in my corner of Oz it's likely to be on the business end of a weed whacker.
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