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Guess what this is 29 - NOW SOLVED

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Marilyn

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Guess what this is 29 - NOW SOLVED
« on: February 10, 2012, 08:25:09 PM »
I have been wanting to do one of these for ages :D
This will probably be a piece of cake for anyone familiar with the plant but here goes anyway:
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2012, 07:19:25 PM »
Hi, I do have an idea but perhaps I'll wait to see what some others think first! It's also a strategy not to be proved wrong!
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2012, 07:29:43 PM »
It resembles pop corn, but I know it is not. I have no idea.
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 12:36:15 AM »
Goodness, harder than I thought then... How about a clue:
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 09:35:44 AM »
Rhubarb flowers?
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 02:21:36 PM »
I have to say that I was wrong anyway because I thought it was the male "flowers" of a pine! I have changed my mind but don't know what to say other than I don't think it's a rhubarb.
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 03:10:51 PM »
It looks to me like something infesting a dying palm!
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2012, 04:10:33 PM »
Or a part of the Queen's hat?
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2012, 05:48:58 PM »
Your Sonja's hat, or our Elizabeth's?
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 06:12:24 PM »
Your queen,of course.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2012, 06:46:46 PM »
Trying to work it out, it looks like it has fruits which are four parted which would rule out monocots? But the bracts look like they could be of a monocot!
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2012, 09:58:33 PM »
it has something of Noaea mucronata about it
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2012, 10:09:40 PM »
Wouldn't that have five parted fruits, these look very definitely four parted?
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2012, 10:34:36 PM »
quite so
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Re: Guess what this is 29
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2012, 11:39:45 AM »
Heavens above! More clues needed.
Not rhubarb... Not pine flowers... and sadly, not a queen's hat (though I can quite see why each of these suggestions were made :) )
It is a monocot, and dioecious as you probably noticed - one each of male and female flowers so far.
And if that does not help, you will have to wait for later for more pics as they are on the home PC.
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