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What is this 58? All is now revealed...

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Hilary

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2014, 11:23:44 AM »
We seem to be playing 20 questions here
Is it a Scilla?
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Alice

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2014, 06:40:45 PM »
Not Scilla.
Do quiz-solvers expect the family or even the genus to be pin-pointed?
But this would not provide a cushion against incorrect answers...
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jmw

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2014, 07:37:48 PM »
It is a dicot, not a monocot. Looks like 5 petals (?). So we can skip the bulbs I suspect.
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Alice

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2014, 09:01:09 PM »
You can safely skip the bulbs.
A dicot it is.
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JTh

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2014, 10:12:34 PM »
Can't find many flowers with five petals looking like that. Saxifraga? (I doubt it, though.)
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Alice

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2014, 02:05:22 AM »
Not Saxifraga, Jorun. You have to imagine the larger picture.
It seems I have to tease it... out of you.
I have been dropping clues like mad.
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Umbrian

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2014, 08:11:59 AM »
Investigating the clues I dubiously suggest a scabious?.......
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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2014, 08:33:38 AM »
Think I might have got it this time! -  A Teasle?
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Alice

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2014, 11:29:50 AM »
You have been doing your sleuthing, Carole!
Almost there. Teasel family - Dipsacaceae. And yes, it is a scabious. My next clue would have been: "Simple Clues About Blue Inflorescences Often Seem Artificial".
Which one?
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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2014, 01:58:44 PM »
OK, all I can suggest is "Blue Butterfly" ......?
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Hilary

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2014, 02:06:02 PM »
Scabiosa tenuis
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Jill S

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #26 on: February 05, 2014, 04:38:23 PM »
S. maritima ?
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Alice

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2014, 06:10:54 PM »
I think I have tormented you enough and it is almost impossible to guess the species from the photo.
It is Scabiosa cretica (pincushion flower, Teasel family).
Well done Carole and everybody who had a go.
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Hilary

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #28 on: February 05, 2014, 06:24:40 PM »
well I am glad the cushion and the pin was in there somewhere.
Eagerly awaiting the next brain test
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Umbrian

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Re: What is this 58?
« Reply #29 on: February 05, 2014, 06:58:06 PM »
Thanks Alice, it was good fun during this wet weather we are experiencing . Now I must concentrate on catching up with Joanne who has mastered posting 'photos on her iPad ....well done Joanne, I am still trying to get photogene....
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