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Title: NOW SOLVED: Guess what this is 9
Post by: JTh on August 28, 2011, 11:21:23 AM
I am glad Alisdair came up with something even I was able to guess, the Phytolacca. Here is another one that I suppose many of you will recognize.
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Post by: John on August 31, 2011, 08:49:51 AM
Ok here's my go. Is it Hibiscus tiliaceus?
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Post by: JTh on August 31, 2011, 09:16:13 AM
Sorry, not right.
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Post by: John on August 31, 2011, 09:48:46 AM
Thought not colour right but stigma too clumped!
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Post by: JTh on August 31, 2011, 09:57:33 AM
You are not that far away, though
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Post by: John on August 31, 2011, 10:29:52 AM
Hibiscus trionum?
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Post by: JTh on August 31, 2011, 10:56:54 AM
A bit further away than that
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Post by: John on September 01, 2011, 09:14:59 AM
Is it an Hibiscus or another genera such as Alcea? I assume Malvaceae is correct?
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Post by: JTh on September 01, 2011, 09:37:31 AM
Correct family, but wrong genus. I'm sure you have seen it.
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Post by: John on September 01, 2011, 02:14:33 PM
Got it. It's Abelmoschus esculentus. Okra!
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Post by: JTh on September 01, 2011, 03:52:48 PM
Of course, you were there when the photo was taken in Crete last autumn. I said it was an easy one.
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Post by: John on September 01, 2011, 05:10:22 PM
I assumed it was then or you had grown them yourself this year.
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Post by: Hilary on September 01, 2011, 06:56:50 PM
Can we see a photo of the whole flower?
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Post by: JTh on September 01, 2011, 09:09:33 PM
Here is the whole flower plus a closeup showing  the stigma without pollen
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Post by: oron peri on September 01, 2011, 09:22:31 PM
Jorun, you are too kind... you should have let John struggle a bit more.... ;)
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Post by: JTh on September 01, 2011, 09:33:05 PM
Probably just stupid, giving him too many clues