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Who is it?

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oron peri

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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #45 on: August 18, 2012, 07:32:59 AM »
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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Alisdair

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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #46 on: August 18, 2012, 07:33:53 AM »
OK, where did you see it - Chrysorogiatissa, Tripylos, Prodromos, Platres, Mandria, Karvounas, Kalavasos?
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #47 on: August 18, 2012, 09:05:41 AM »
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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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #48 on: August 18, 2012, 09:14:30 AM »
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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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #49 on: August 18, 2012, 09:47:30 AM »
Yes it is John and Alisdair.
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #50 on: August 18, 2012, 09:58:23 AM »
Ok a difficult one now. No hints...
First prize is a one way ticket sponsored by the AM.GS.....
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Alice

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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2012, 01:42:39 AM »
Anagallis arvensis??
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #52 on: August 19, 2012, 11:36:33 AM »
No Alice, it is not the one
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #53 on: August 19, 2012, 01:29:05 PM »
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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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2012, 05:11:54 PM »
Verbascum blattaria?
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #55 on: August 19, 2012, 07:27:16 PM »
Alice you are almost there....!
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2012, 07:43:40 PM »
Verbascum phoeniceum?
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #57 on: August 21, 2012, 06:26:50 AM »
Alice, CHAPEAU!!!

It is Verbascum phoeniceum.
Photographed last year in Georgia.
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Two real Who is its?
« Reply #58 on: August 28, 2012, 10:29:54 AM »
For a change here are two people, both forum members. Who are they?
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Re: Who is it?
« Reply #59 on: August 28, 2012, 04:05:36 PM »
Two keen male photographers.
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