Red Gerbera Profile
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Red Gerbera Profile
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber (1743) who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus. It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa and tropical Asia.Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers.Gerbera is also important commercially. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip). It is also used as a model organism in studying flower formation. Gerbera contains naturally occurring coumarin derivatives. Gerbera is a tender perennial plant. It is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds, but resistant to deer.
FEATURED 4/11/16 "All Natural Beauty of This World"
FEATURED 4/16/16 in "Exquisite Florals"
FEATURED 4/16/16 in "Beautiful Flowers"
FEATURED 5/23/16 in "Once Weekly All Stars"
FEATURED 5/24/16 in "Premium FAA Artists"
FEATURED 11/20/16 in "Flora"
FEATURED 12/18/16 in "The Most Beautiful Flowers"
FEATURED 12/20/16 in "500 Views - 1 Image"
FEATURED 6/3/19 in "Macro Marvels"
FEATURED 6/4/19 in "Images That Excite You"
FEATURED 6/10/19 in "Global Flowers"
FEATURED 6/11/19 in "Pin Me Daily"
FEATURED 6/17/19 in "Your Very Best Photography"
FEATURED 11/9/21 in "Photographic Camera Art"
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April 11th, 2016
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #11 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Alana Thrower
Beautiful detail an color! Nominating in the 1000 Views group! l/f/t/p/fb
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you very much, Alana! Thank you for the nomination as well as the promos!!
Connie Fox
Wow! Such a beauty. Congratulations on your homepage feature in "Images That Excite You." Love how you've set this daisy apart from all the others. Quite different and very effective!
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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