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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2008, 04:18:29 PM »
Fantastic photos, Frazer, I love the sphondylia  section primulas .  I now realise that I was speaking to Stan de Prato, not you!  :-[ :-X :-\ Well, well, he's from Edinburgh direction, close enough! :-[ You see why they don't let me out much, don't you?  :o
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2008, 07:20:46 PM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on March 24, 2008, 02:08:11 PM
Maggi

I didn't go to Dunblane - I'm just back from Yemen and here for just a couple of days and then it's off to Dubai and the Indian ocean for a few months. Must have been some other chap! We male gardeners all look the same - thin and bearded!!

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It takes me three days to decide whether or not to go to Exeter, and that's only 30 miles or so up the road! ;D

Frazer, is it work that takes you to foreign climes?
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2008, 08:47:21 PM »
Frazer, have you been able to collect any seed from the Cichorium?
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2008, 07:03:38 AM »
Frazer, you can "bore" us anytime you like!!! Your pics from that part of the world are great! And as lesley said, have you found any seed!
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #34 on: March 25, 2008, 05:40:18 PM »
Lesley, Fermi alas no seed as the plants were just coming into flower.

I won't be back in Yemen until June by which time I think the seed will have been blown to the four corners however I will have a look just in case there have been some late flowering plants.
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #35 on: March 25, 2008, 07:51:42 PM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on March 24, 2008, 01:44:35 PM
Pictures 1-3 of an unidentified bun cactus found at the top of the plateau (3000m) windswept and quite bleak.

Frazer,
This is a Euphorbia, but what species I don't know.  Absolutely wonderful to see these plants and landscapes - many thanks.
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #36 on: March 25, 2008, 08:23:15 PM »
Fermi and I thank you Frazer.
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2008, 08:54:18 PM »
Quote from: ashley on March 25, 2008, 07:51:42 PM
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on March 24, 2008, 01:44:35 PM
Pictures 1-3 of an unidentified bun cactus found at the top of the plateau (3000m) windswept and quite bleak.

Frazer,
This is a Euphorbia, but what species I don't know.  Absolutely wonderful to see these plants and landscapes - many thanks.
Ashley,
Finally found out its name. According to JR Wood in the Handbook of the Flora of Yemen it is Euphorbia sp. aff. fruticosa I had seen similar E. fruticosa which didn't form the "bun" shape. Some splitter has probably given it species status since writing this. Anyhow another identification solved!
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2008, 11:53:18 PM »
Interesting, Frazer.  It's a great plant and imitates New World cacti so well.
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Re: Jebel Kawkaban
« Reply #39 on: September 09, 2008, 11:37:56 AM »
Excellent to have the ID on this interesting plant.....it's all just a question of patience, isn't it?  8)
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