Drought-resistant shrub
Konstantinos Kourtidis
Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
The shrub in the image is Sacropoterium Spinosum. It grows in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The springy masses of interlocking twigs were used as a form of cushioning or protecting fragile cargo such as ceramic amphoræ on ancient Roman ships. Image is around 1,5 m across.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Konstantinos Kourtidis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
3.3 MB
Aspect
4:3
Width
3072 px
Height
2304 px
Brand
Panasonic
Model
Lumix DMC-FZ8
Exposure
14 mm f/3.2 1/100 s ISO 100
Coordinates
40.4978, 25.6020
Tint
Light olive gray
Submitted
3 October 2012
Taken
13 August 2012
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