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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: oron peri on August 12, 2012, 03:35:00 PM
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OK,
Its my turn for some quizzes...
Who is that?
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.....n. ...o.a..a ? ::)
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.n....e c......i. ?
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Brava Alice !!!
Bravo Hans !!!
Anemone coronaria, a color form which is common on Cyprus.
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Lets try another one...
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Very pretty anemone. I don't think I have come across it in Greece. The more common colours are pink and mauve and the white ones have darker filaments.
The quizzes are getting harder and harder. I will have to get the grey cells really working to figure out what the red curtain is.
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Arum, Biarum?
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No, Wrong family..
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mmmm, no Arum or Biarum... maybe Dracunculus vulgaris (or Eminium)?
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No, no no and no...
The color is a deep, blood red. [ thats a big hint...]
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Arbutus andrachne.
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Hemerocallis?
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NO & No
Maybe its too difficult so i'll give another hint: It is the deepest red in the Mediterranean.
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Haemanthus coccineus?
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Alice,
Haemanthus is not native to the Mediterranean.
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(The mouthwatering) Tulipa cypria??? :o
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Adonis aestivalis, which according to Greek legends sprang from the blood of Adonis?
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Well Hans you are right again ;)
Tulipa cypria it is!
A rare endemic from Cyprus, growing in the Akamas and N. Cyprus.
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and what about this...
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Wow, great to see Tulipa cypria. What an amazing colour. Thanks!
Any chance of a sharper/larger file size version of your latest puzzle? (Not that it would help me... ;))
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Done, Alisdair. (and.. you should recognize it...)
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thanks Oron - this tulip was burned into my brain when I saw a picture of it (you had made). ;)
Next should be .yti..s .y..c....s ;D
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You are right again Hans :-\ ;)
Cytinus hypocitis, a parasitic plant on the different Cistus in the mediterranean, apears in spring
either white and red or yellow and red like this one.
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Another one from the mediterranean, who is it?
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Galanthus peshmenii (or reginae - olgae or cilicicus)? ::)
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>:(
Yes it is, Galanthus peshmenii from SW Turkey,
It is an autumnal flowering bulb.
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Ok Hans, you asked for it.... now who is this?
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Oh, a really tricky one :o - not sure if it is a Serapias spec. or Meleagris gallopavo. ::) ;)
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Hibiscus?
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Just to go back a few posts, re Tulipa cypria, there's a nice photo by Hasan Baglar here
http://stavrogonno.1x.com/photo/88579/4717/
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No Jorun and no to Hans
Just replaced the photo for a larger one.
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A hint... its leafless...
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Sarcodes sanguinea (snow plant)?
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Orobanche?
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Corallorhiza?
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John,
Very good, you have got the genus, still to find the species name...
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I cannot identify the one in the quiz, but I seem to have far too much of a short lilac example. Digging it out doesn't seem to get rid of it, and neither does trying to keep the soil covered and deprived of light. Would caressing it lovingly with 'RoundUp' work? has anyone managed to eradicate this unwanted tenant?
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As you seem to be sticking to Mediterranean species, especially from this end of the Med, Oron, could it be O. crenata?
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No, not crenata, as you can see it has a much deeper color!
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O. camptollepis?
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No Miriam it is not the one...
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Ok, another hint: it is endemic.
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but endemic where??
how about pubescens?
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O. densiflora?
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O. gracilis?
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No, no, and no ;D
Jills if i'll tell you where it is endemic to you will know the name!
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OK, where did you see it - Chrysorogiatissa, Tripylos, Prodromos, Platres, Mandria, Karvounas, Kalavasos?
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the most richly coloured red/purple of which I've been able to find an illustration seems to be O. californica?
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Oron, are we talking O. cypria here? I must be slowing down in my old age as I had completely forgotten about this endemic parasite.
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Yes it is John and Alisdair.
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Ok a difficult one now. No hints...
First prize is a one way ticket sponsored by the AM.GS.....
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Anagallis arvensis??
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No Alice, it is not the one
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I didn't think so either, Oron, but it was the closest I could get to it. Well, back to the drawing board.
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Verbascum blattaria?
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Alice you are almost there....!
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Verbascum phoeniceum?
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Alice, CHAPEAU!!!
It is Verbascum phoeniceum.
Photographed last year in Georgia.
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For a change here are two people, both forum members. Who are they?
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Two keen male photographers.
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You're hot on the trail, Alice!
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I reckon the photographers are merely different subspecies of Snapsis pictum :)
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Who is it 1..... may just be the person that commented 4 days ago that cyclamen are confusing!
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1. Digitalis camera
2. Smilax thebirdii
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Very good, Alice :)
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Well done, Melvyn, exactly right - forum member John, photographing a Cyclamen persicum in a very unexpected and almost certainly accidental site on Monte Smith, during the MGS trip to Rhodes a few years ago. The photo below shows him in the same place, again on the wrong end of the camera, during a local TV news interview about the trip, talking about his then new Kew book on The Flowers of Crete.
So who is number 2?
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No. 2 must be JTh. If the picture he has posted is anything to go by he must spend a lot of his time lying on the ground with a camera in his hand...
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I protest, I am not a he!
Oron is a more likely guess, but I don't think that's his camera
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Definitely not Jorun! (sounds a bit similar though....)
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I apologize, Jorun. The tiny photo is not very clear.
No.2 Oron? Sounds similar to Jorun.
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Well done, Alice (and Jorun - I think he's changed his camera, or at least the strap!). It is Oron, shown here on that same trip, in Rhodes Town.
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John's strap has been changed as well, and Oron has had another camera the last times I have seen him. No wonder you thought my name was a male one, Alice, it's an Old Norse one and about 99 % of all non-Norwegians make the same mistake.