Thank you for helping me identify this plant. You are correct! Isn't the swirl pattern of the leaves beautiful? And to think that these grow to be huge trees!! I am sorry that you couldn't increase the image size - I was just happy to be able to attach it to my post! Will have to investigate further about image sizes the next time I post. Thanks again! Lena
Hi Lena, I don't know where you got the images, but the first one comes from this page: http://www.2docstock.com/galleries/Gallery A -Animals & Nature/index_2.htm Which is published on this Website: http://www.2docstock.com/index.html All the materials from the website are copyrighted, so I have removed the images from the thread. I did not find the second image, but it is similar, so may be in one of the other galleries. The first image is named PANDANUS. You can get a better look at the photo from the 2docstock website - the images expand.
Hi Eric, Thank you for letting us know where the images originated from. I had no idea they were copyright material. I belong to a gardening club, and these images were presented to the group as a mystery plant for identification purposes. How does one determine that an image is copyrighted, and how were you able to locate the website that they were 'lifted' from? Would be nice to know, so as not to pilfer any more images from one who owns them. Thanks again!
With the internet it is so easy to download and trade images that people's photos (and other work) end up in people's files and no one knows where they came from. This is not such a big deal if they are for personal use or for a small group (although in this case that too was prohibited by the copyright), but when you post an image on our website or any other you are publishing the image and then the use is more likely to be recognized. I think the safest answer is to assume that all images are copyrighted unless you know otherwise. If it is not your image and you do not have permission, don't post it. If an image is found on another website and you want to ask about it or comment on it, a link to the webpage with the image can be posted. How did I find the image? I was curious about the plant and to see if the ID was good, I typed the word "pandanus" into Googleâ„¢ and clicked the Image Search. The image appeared on the page, I clicked it to go to the webpage where it was posted and then back tracked to the homepage. I did not notice it last night, but the second image is there too. It is from this site: http://www.toildepices.com/fr/plantes/angio_mon/pandanacee/pandanus/_sp.html A lot of people still do not realize that Googleâ„¢ offers image searches. If you have not used it, try it. Did you solve the mystery? Next time try the image search - you would have solved it in minutes! Welcome to the forums,
