Hi friends of the Nature Observer community, how are you all? I hope you are all well.
On this occasion I want to try to publish my work because I haven't posted it for several days. And this is a post that displays the types of plants that live in tropical forest areas. This plant is known as Elephantopus Scaber which is a type of plant that can be used in traditional medicine.
This plant comes from Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. As a reference I observed on Wikipedia, this plant has become naturalized in tropical Africa and Latin America. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. However, the photo I took as shown here comes from a small forest in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia. And of course, this plant also grows in Indonesia's tropical forests.
At first I was hunting in the forest looking for unique and relatively rare types of flora or fauna, I found this plant with beautiful purple flowers. The appearance of the flowers of this plant made me stunned and grateful that God had created such a beautiful plant. It seems that the purple color in this plant is the pistil of the blooming flower. And I didn't wait long, I just took a photo using the external macro lens that I installed on my Android cellphone camera.
Friends, you can also enjoy the results of my portraits well, and I hope they are enjoyable.
Chemical contents of the Elephantopus Scaber plant.
This plant can be used as medicine, such as treating rheumatism, fever, bladder stones and so on. There are several references to universal knowledge on several related pages in Google searches for the uses of these parts of the Elephantopus Scaber plant.
Behind the beauty of this plant, it turns out that it contains Elephantopin which is a Germacranolide Sesquiterpene Lactone which contains two lactone rings and an epoxide functional group. This plant also contains Elephantopin and 8-Hydroxyl Naringenin, the most important bioactive compounds responsible for anti-bacterial activity.
The tools I use when taking photos.
Of the dozens of shots I have, only a few have succeeded in capturing the Elephantopus Scaber flower. I threw away some of the less good shots in the trash, and there are only 14 images that I can display here. The tools I used when taking this photo were an Infinix Android smartphone, a 0.45mm macro lens, and a Lensbong. Maybe it can also be a reference for friends who have the same Android cellphone as the one I'm currently using, and I hope it helps.
Then from the best image selection that I got, I edited it using the Android version of the Lightroom application. For me, this application is very helpful for adjusting and producing good brightness, sharpness and image resolution.
My friends, this is all I can write to explain what I did as you can see above. I hope this post is also useful for myself and also useful for other people who read it. Hopefully next time I can share again with the Nature Observer Community, I hope we are all fine.
Regards!
@new-spirit
| Photo | Elephantopus Scaber |
|---|---|
| Photographer | @new-spirit |
| Photo location | Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia |
| Camera | Infinix smartphone, External macro lens |
