Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hakea laurina Tas.jpg

Reason: Very high encyclopaedic value thanks to the presence of multiple inflorescences in different stages of development.
Articles this image appears in: Hakea, Grevilleoideae, Hakea laurina
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support High encyclopaedic value per nom, also showing leaf/venation detail; location information given. Nice lighting, reads well as a thumbnail too. Melburnian (talk) 12:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It's a bit messy composition-wise. Kaldari (talk) 14:52, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd assume you are referring to the leaves, which are coming from the stem just behind the flower. The article says "[the flowers are] perhaps hidden by the leaves in the early stages". I think that it'd be difficult to get both the flower, and the others at various stages all in one frame without leaves and things present. Certainly no where near as difficult as some Hakea species though. I wonder about the other image in the article, it almost looks like a cultivar or subspecies the filaments (guess) are much redder. Google images has quite a few sample images of this species. It would be nice to move the opening flower a bit, but I lucked out on the arrangement as is. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I like the various stages all being shown, good to get them in focus also. Slight shame the main flower is slightly impinged by the other but nature isn't perfect. Nice. |→ Spaully^₪† 10:03, 2 May 2009 (GMT)
Support per Spauly. Mostlyharmless (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hakea laurina Tas.jpg MER-C 02:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]