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Miscellaneous => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: John on July 28, 2011, 10:30:06 AM
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Another detail of a plant.
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It's lemon curd.
Definitely.
I can taste lemon merengue now!
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Definitely not!
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There's a hint of knopper gall about it, but the colour and (I suspect) scale are wrong.
Very teasing.
Good piccy.
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It is perfectly normal tissue but obviously a close up.
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Is it this before it opens?
Hilary
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No but you are thinking along the right lines.
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Something in the Cucurbitaceae family then? It looks more like a sea anemone with very short tentacles
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No sorry wrong family. What I meant is it is a fruit of sorts.
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Could it be a loofah?
Hilary
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Nope!
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At least this isn't a bulb so Oron should struggle with this one!
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Capparis fruit ?
don't know which species, but not C. spinosa (caper)
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We need a hint here
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Drosanthemum?
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Ok a hint, it's flowers are lacking!
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Momordica charantia by any chance?
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Nope!
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Oh... of course not - I was looking at the wrong picture :-[
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The inside of a fig?
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Nope!
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The "spores" at the reverse of a fern leaf
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No sorry you are way out. It is a flowering plant!
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The inside of a peach where the stone has been removed?
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John
Tell us, once and for all. I can't sleep at night thinking about this !
It looks like a class of lemon , but it couldn't be that obvious, could it?
David
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So, you've been following this too! No I won't put you out of your misery yet . That's the point. If it was too easy it wouldn't be much fun! Though I must admit that either Oron be barred from the bulbs or I make that subject more difficult!
Anyway it's much smaller than a lemon and the genus is large in number. OK?
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Ho and I missed Jorun's peach suggestion. Nope!
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Has everyone given up on this one?
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Could it be P. r.?
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in case it helps anybody - John took the photo a month ago
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No it's not P. r. Also the timing is relevant but I can't imagine that will help many of you!
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You are right, no help at all
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Well I hope this is more entertaining than me posting a picture and Oron just saying what it is!
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some paraphernalia in an orchid flower?
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Nowhere near.
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Anemone (or maybe Ranunculus or Aquilegia) 'fruit' somewhere between petal fall and achene development?
No - Caltha might be a bit closer.
Anyway - some Ranunculid?
Actually - how about a Clematis tangutica flower bud? (no - it can't be that lumpy can it?)
arghhh!
Different tack - immature lychee fruit?
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Nope.
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Can we ask
Is it edible?
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Definitely not. At least to humans. Though I have seen rodents eat it.
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Euphorbia mellifera fruit.
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Well Oron you are very nearly right. Should I let you struggle on and demand the correct identification? Yes for a while!
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OK you are half right!
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Ha.. well, that would be easy as there are only 2008 Species of Euophorbia.. ;D
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Exactly!
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No, you are literally half right!
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melitensis?
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Only 2006 more to guess from
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No and you didn't get the hint, only half of the answer and not generic.
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So the genus Euphorbia was not right?
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No the genera is right, Euphorbia the other part is only half right!
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Euphorbia balsamifera?
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No, gosh this ones going on for a long time. Previously Oron was half right!
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Ok, by half right I mean you have got one of the parents!
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Euporbia x pasteurii
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At last. I believe that I have posted this very subject. Concluded!
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I could have put money on it being you Oron!!!!!!!
This one went on for quite a while didn't it.