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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-16-2024, 09:56 AM
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Blooming now out in the garden (yard?)...some orchids for your delectation, two dendrobiums and a phalaenopsis...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-25-2024, 07:45 PM
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Thanks, Tony. Just a quick snap out in the yard, but it's a gorgeous flower, thought I'd share it!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-25-2024, 09:27 AM
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Blooming today, Cattleya lueddemanniana v. coerulea |
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01-04-2024, 05:16 PM
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Thanks, Tony! I have no complaints about my kit lenses. Works for me!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-04-2024, 10:04 AM
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Crinum asiaticum, flowers and fruit
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-21-2023, 02:06 PM
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Yeah, I puzzled over that as well. But the structure of it -- bad angle! -- said "hibiscus".
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-17-2023, 07:42 AM
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Contrary to all rumor, neither am I, but my crystal ball suggests Hibiscus grandiflorus as a possibility, several other wild hibiscus species as less likely but still possible.
Whatever, it's beautiful!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-17-2023, 05:38 AM
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Looks hibiscus-ish to me.
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10-14-2023, 06:44 AM
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Wow...I've never seen it before! Thanks!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-08-2023, 07:24 AM
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You're welcome, Paul. Always glad to be the spoilsport :lol:. Lots of flowering plants have the common name "lily" but many of them aren't lilies at all. Doesn't mean they aren't beautiful!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-07-2023, 02:41 PM
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Thanks, Tony. Just a quick snap out in the yard, it was actually a little too breezy for my preference. Turned out OK, though!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-07-2023, 06:55 AM
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Lovely, Paul. But Spathiphyllums aren't really lilies, and the flowers are those teeny bumps on the spadix...the large white structure is a bract, a modified leaf. An Aroid, related to Philodendron, as are Callas. Not lilies at all. But still very attractive!
Here's an orchid currently blooming in the yard, Brassavola nodosa, "lady of the night", the flowers are amazingly fragrant at night, this clump perfumes the whole yard!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-05-2023, 05:24 PM
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I do believe that the Hawaiians are the major growers/hybridizers of this type of Anthurium, "the anthurium capital of the world"
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-05-2023, 07:42 AM
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white anthuriums are not uncommon...there are multicolored ones, too, very fancy from Hawaiian growers...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-08-2023, 03:55 PM
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Excuse me, Orchard? Who dat?
Sorry, I don't recognize the bud. Could be a dahlia, I honestly don't know...maybe one of our dahlia growers can opine.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-30-2023, 02:16 PM
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That's OK, Jason, we understand and we enjoy them!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-29-2023, 07:12 AM
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Yah, I think the first one is a Cosmos, Tony. Gorgeous!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-24-2023, 12:57 PM
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-24-2023, 11:55 AM
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You're welcome, glad, as always, to help if I can. These are interesting plants, like many others the new growth is pigmented, the color fades gradually as the leaf matures. But it's very attractive as it forms.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-24-2023, 07:14 AM
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Beautiful image, Tony, but the pink thingy in the center isn't a flower, it's the new leaf emerging.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-18-2023, 04:44 PM
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I like it, too...don't think I've ever seen a gladiolus that color!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-13-2023, 04:03 PM
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PlantNet says it may be some kind of dahlia, which makes sense as your neighbor grows a lot of dahlias. My guess is that this is several flowers tangled up together.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-13-2023, 03:58 PM
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Welcome. You might need to get close (don't say you weren't warned!). My recollection -- the botanic garden here has a bunch of Stapelias in a rock garden -- is that the odor (stench, actually) doesn't travel far from the plant*. But the common name "carrion flower" is apt, they do stink like rotting meat. (not every species of stapelia is stinky, but that one definitely is.
*unlike the stink of a different plant, Amorphophallus titanum, "corpse flower", which is detectable for the equivalent of several blocks.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-11-2023, 12:09 PM
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Looks like a Stapelia to me. Yes, a succulent, and yes, many if not most of them smell horrible...like rotting meat. That's to attract their pollinators, typically flies. That one is most likely Stapelia gigantea |
