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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #135 on: April 29, 2021, 04:40:11 »
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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #136 on: May 01, 2021, 08:06:46 »
Leopoldia comosa

aka Muscari comosum. Same family (Liliaceae) as hyacinth and onions, they have an edible bulb and are known -and heavily collected- in Southern Italy as Lampascioni (but pronounced Lambascioni, letters P and B are very interchangeable in S Italian pronounciation, like B and V in Spanish). You can even buy cans of vinegar-treated Lambascioni at the supermarket!

Honeybees crave them too and they storm the surviving plants...

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #137 on: May 01, 2021, 09:15:19 »
Kalmia: beautiful but a bit weird.
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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #138 on: May 12, 2021, 17:12:43 »
The vild tulip we never found on Crete.
Found on west coast of Jutland near Rømø

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #139 on: May 12, 2021, 18:20:58 »
The vild tulip we never found on Crete.
Found on west coast of Jutland near Rømø

Lovely great find, but sideways?!

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #140 on: May 12, 2021, 20:02:10 »
Lovely great find, but sideways?!
Must see if I can correct it, upload from my phone ;)
Edit: Didn’t succeed  :(

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #141 on: May 12, 2021, 21:35:35 »
I like it!

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #142 on: May 12, 2021, 22:58:07 »
... and I fixed it for you, Bent :)

These are quite common on the southern coastline in Norway, by the way. Arrived via ballast from the tall ships hundreds of years ago.

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #143 on: May 13, 2021, 02:37:43 »
Eventually to become persimmons.

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #144 on: May 13, 2021, 08:06:33 »
... and I fixed it for you, Bent :)

These are quite common on the southern coastline in Norway, by the way. Arrived via ballast from the tall ships hundreds of years ago.

Tulipa sylvestris they spread in the northern part of our country, Friesland, and in the west, Holland and Zeeland, i have never seen them.

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #145 on: May 13, 2021, 10:38:44 »
... and I fixed it for you, Bent :)

These are quite common on the southern coastline in Norway, by the way. Arrived via ballast from the tall ships hundreds of years ago.
Thank you Birna, I am travelling so have only phone and iPad

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #146 on: June 08, 2021, 05:11:32 »

Globe Artichoke
by Dave Hartman, on Flickr

Globe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) or so I surmise.
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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #147 on: June 13, 2021, 14:09:54 »
Kalmia: beautiful but a bit weird.

I agree Akira - don't remember having seen that flower before.

Globe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) or so I surmise.

Nice Artichoke flower David.

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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #148 on: June 13, 2021, 16:25:10 »
I agree Akira - don't remember having seen that flower before.

Every summer I look forward to the blue spots appearing in the fields  :)

Thank you for the comment, Lars.

Nice blue color.  Bachelor's buttons?
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Re: [THEME] Flowers, Weird and Wonderful (or maybe not?)
« Reply #149 on: June 13, 2021, 19:11:11 »
Thank you for the comment, Lars.

Nice blue color.  Bachelor's buttons?

And the same to you, Akira - yes, correct  :)