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Title: NOW SOLVED: Guess what this is 3
Post by: John on July 28, 2011, 10:30:06 AM
Another detail of a plant.
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Post by: MikeHardman on July 28, 2011, 01:42:00 PM
It's lemon curd.
Definitely.
I can taste lemon merengue now!
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Post by: John on July 28, 2011, 04:17:11 PM
Definitely not!
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Post by: MikeHardman on July 28, 2011, 04:38:53 PM
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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Post by: John on July 28, 2011, 10:05:15 PM
It is perfectly normal tissue but obviously a close up.
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Post by: Hilary on July 29, 2011, 05:11:29 AM
Is it this before it opens?
Hilary
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Post by: John on July 29, 2011, 09:44:04 AM
No but you are thinking along the right lines.
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Post by: JTh on July 30, 2011, 02:50:52 PM
Something in the Cucurbitaceae family then? It looks more like a sea anemone with very short tentacles
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Post by: John on July 30, 2011, 06:04:25 PM
No sorry wrong family. What I meant is it is a fruit of sorts.
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Post by: Hilary on July 30, 2011, 07:12:59 PM
Could it be a loofah?
Hilary
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Post by: John on July 30, 2011, 09:48:51 PM
Nope!
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Post by: John on August 04, 2011, 10:42:29 PM
At least this isn't a bulb so Oron should struggle with this one!
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 05, 2011, 07:53:56 AM
Capparis fruit ?
don't know which species, but not C. spinosa (caper)
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Post by: JTh on August 05, 2011, 07:57:50 AM
We need a hint here
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Post by: JTh on August 05, 2011, 04:07:05 PM
Drosanthemum?
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Post by: John on August 05, 2011, 04:22:07 PM
Ok a hint, it's flowers are lacking!
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 05, 2011, 04:46:23 PM
Momordica charantia by any chance?
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Post by: John on August 05, 2011, 09:51:28 PM
Nope!
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 06, 2011, 07:59:44 AM
Oh... of course not - I was looking at the wrong picture   :-[
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Post by: JTh on August 07, 2011, 06:55:58 PM
The inside of a fig?
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Post by: John on August 08, 2011, 07:36:11 PM
Nope!
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Post by: Chantal on August 09, 2011, 08:21:47 AM
The "spores" at the reverse of a fern leaf
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Post by: John on August 09, 2011, 09:45:10 PM
No sorry you are way out. It is a flowering plant!
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Post by: JTh on August 10, 2011, 03:05:31 PM
The inside of a peach where the stone has been removed?
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Post by: david glen on August 10, 2011, 07:47:28 PM
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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Post by: John on August 10, 2011, 09:40:32 PM
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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Post by: John on August 10, 2011, 09:41:46 PM
Ho and I missed Jorun's peach suggestion. Nope!
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Post by: John on August 25, 2011, 09:02:33 PM
Has everyone given up on this one?
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Post by: oron peri on August 25, 2011, 09:33:29 PM
Could it be P. r.?
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 25, 2011, 09:40:55 PM
in case it helps anybody - John took the photo a month ago
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Post by: John on August 25, 2011, 09:46:12 PM
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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Post by: JTh on August 25, 2011, 10:17:01 PM
You are right, no help at all
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Post by: John on August 25, 2011, 10:31:28 PM
Well I hope this is more entertaining than me posting a picture and Oron just saying what it is!
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 25, 2011, 11:50:01 PM
some paraphernalia in an orchid flower?
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Post by: John on August 26, 2011, 10:09:59 AM
Nowhere near.
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Post by: MikeHardman on August 26, 2011, 10:27:47 PM
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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Post by: John on August 26, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
Nope.
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Post by: Hilary on August 27, 2011, 08:11:10 AM
Can we ask
Is it edible?
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Post by: John on August 28, 2011, 01:01:42 PM
Definitely not. At least to humans. Though I have seen rodents eat it.
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Post by: oron peri on August 28, 2011, 06:03:41 PM
Euphorbia mellifera fruit.
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Post by: John on August 28, 2011, 10:22:19 PM
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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Post by: John on August 29, 2011, 09:34:54 AM
OK you are half right!
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Post by: oron peri on August 29, 2011, 10:15:27 AM
Ha.. well, that would be easy as there are only 2008 Species of Euophorbia.. ;D
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Post by: JTh on August 29, 2011, 10:21:05 AM
Exactly!
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Post by: John on August 29, 2011, 11:34:42 PM
No, you are literally half right!
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Post by: oron peri on August 30, 2011, 02:22:34 PM
melitensis?
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Post by: JTh on August 30, 2011, 07:01:33 PM
Only 2006 more to guess from
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Post by: John on August 31, 2011, 08:51:17 AM
No and you didn't get the hint, only half of the answer and not generic.
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Post by: JTh on August 31, 2011, 09:51:23 AM
So the genus Euphorbia was not right?
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Post by: John on September 01, 2011, 02:16:34 PM
No the genera is right, Euphorbia the other part is only half right!
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Post by: JTh on September 01, 2011, 03:56:38 PM
Euphorbia balsamifera?
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Post by: John on September 01, 2011, 05:09:26 PM
No, gosh this ones going on for a long time. Previously Oron was half right!
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Post by: John on September 03, 2011, 08:00:17 PM
Ok, by half right I mean you have got one of the parents!
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Post by: oron peri on September 03, 2011, 08:56:55 PM
Euporbia x pasteurii
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Post by: John on September 03, 2011, 11:41:36 PM
At last. I believe that I have posted this very subject. Concluded!
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Post by: John on September 03, 2011, 11:42:45 PM
I could have put money on it being you Oron!!!!!!!
This one went on for quite a while didn't it.