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- 2Alberta Aviation Museum
- 1Campbell, Sady
- 1Campell, Sandy
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- 23Russia, St. Petersburg
- 14Arctic flowers
- 14September, 2016
- 13Arctic plants
- 6Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden - Tromsø, Norway
- 6Botanic Gardens - Arctic Regions
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2025-03-28
The fruit of mountain ash trees often persist through the winter. In this early spring snow storm, snow accumulated on both the branches and fruit clusters.
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2025-03-28
An early spring storm dropped 17cm to 20cm of snow. Winds blew the snow onto the trunks of trees.
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2025-03-28
White spruce, with its many needles and overlapping and interlaced branches holds snow on its surface. Spruce trees can be so heavily covered with snow that they can look white. The conical shape and flexibility of the branches help the snow slide off when it melts.
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2025-03-28
Spruce trees have dense, overlapping branches that prevent much of the precipitation from reaching the ground. In the case of snow, the branches create a ring around the tree where snow does not directly fall, or a "snow shadow".
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2025-03-28
Austrian Pine, Pinus nigra, is a species common to Southern Europe. These trees are found as landscape introductions in northern regions. Austrian pines have bundles of needles that tend to point upwards and collect snow.
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2025-03-28
Elm is a deciduous tree, so its branches are bare in the winter. It has many small fine branches, which do not capture snow well. Only the larger branches accumulate snow.
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2025-03-28
Rose hips or rose haws, are the fruit of rose plants. They often persist through the winter and are used in traditional medicines.
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2025-03-29
Image shows a variety of icicles that formed alongside each other
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View of part of the rhododendron collection at the Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden in Tromsø, Norway
Download2024-06-08
This image shows part of the rhododendron collection at the Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden (latitude 69.6769° N) in Tromsø, Norway, the northernmost botanic garden in the world. The collection is is large and remarkable for its growth at this high latitude. It is located on a east-facing...
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2024-06-10
The growing season in Tromsø is short, so many people plant annuals, which are grown in greenhouses. In this small garden in a private yard, there were African daisies and marigolds in bloom in mid-June.