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Title: What is this 51? - NOW SOLVED
Post by: Alice on October 06, 2013, 09:25:12 PM

And one from this part of the world.
It is of some interest.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Hilary on October 08, 2013, 04:32:26 PM

Viewed 21 time and no one with any ideas
Some kind of Rigani

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 08, 2013, 05:36:47 PM

I was beginning to think nobody was going to have a go.
Way off, Hilary, I'm afraid. Much larger.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Charithea on October 09, 2013, 02:06:05 PM

Is it a succulent? A sedum acre?

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 09, 2013, 05:22:54 PM

No.
But it likes its salt.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Hilary on October 09, 2013, 05:32:21 PM

Thymelaea

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 09, 2013, 06:16:21 PM

No.
A good guess by nowhere near.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: JTh on October 09, 2013, 09:31:58 PM

Another wild guess, Salsola sp.?

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Charithea on October 10, 2013, 05:07:41 AM

How about Halocnemum strbilaceum?

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 10, 2013, 07:56:55 AM

No and no.
I would say much more commonly seen.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Hilary on October 10, 2013, 10:08:12 AM

Well my book fell open at Euphorbia paralias.
Can't say I have ever noticed it and it is too wet to go out for a walk along the 'paralia' beach near us
So is this it?

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Charithea on October 10, 2013, 02:49:44 PM

ALice is it a Chenopodiaceae? I wonder whether I should go to the nearby salt lake to look for it. Afterall the sun is still shining here.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 10, 2013, 06:49:24 PM

No, Hilary.
And no, Charithea, but if you went for a walk to your salt lake you might see one. As indeed you might, Hilary, near the paralia. And look up rather than down.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Charithea on October 10, 2013, 07:17:07 PM

Could it be a Tamarix?

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Hilary on October 10, 2013, 09:47:40 PM

Well if it is not raining I will be down at the beach at the crack of dawn , looking up

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Alice on October 11, 2013, 06:50:24 AM

Well done, Charithea. A Tamarix it is, probably smyrnensis.
The poor specimens had been hacked back and the stumps were resprouting in a most peculiar way. I must confess, though, that after posting the photo, I learned that they had also been treated with glyphosate. I don't know if this has anything to do with the strange appearance.
I hope you enjoyed your walk on the beach at the crack of dawn, Hilary.

Title: Re: What is this 51?
Post by: Hilary on October 11, 2013, 11:28:20 AM

Enjoyed the walk but not at the crack of dawn.
The Tamarix here look nothing like your photo, even the new shoots at the base of the trunk which is regularly pruned to keep the tree shape.
Looking forward to the next quiz