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Lesley Cox

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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2007, 09:31:26 PM »
So who's the pillock now? she asks herslf ruefully. ???
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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2007, 08:59:16 AM »
Thank you very much Stephen.I'll make sure i write a label out for it.

My plant appears to have flowering stems that are even more dwarf than the pics you have shown.

Interestingly while using 'google' to locate a photo of Scorzonera i came across a plant named as Scorzonera tragopogonoides.

And for my final wandering comment.
Lesley Lesley Lesley.....you are not a pillock .
We must find a more suitable name .Let me think for a moment...................I know --please select from the following options----

Blockhead
bonehead
dumba..
dunce
dunderhead
hammerhead
knucklehead
loggerhead
lunkhead
muttonhead
numskull
klutz
simpleton

Cheers big ears Dave.
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Dave Toole. Invercargill bottom of the South Island New Zealand. Zone 9 maritime climate 1100mm rainfall pa.

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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2007, 11:28:42 PM »
I think pillock is used similarly to "bastard" here in Australia.... as a term of endearment, that technically would be meant as an insult on the married state of your parents.  I've always thought of pillock as interchangeable with "idiot", which I use as a term of endearment at times.  Here's hoping Dave actually WASN'T insulted, as I certainly read it as a term of endearment Lesley!!
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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2007, 11:49:29 PM »
Crawler !!!!!!!!!!.
Dave Toole. Invercargill bottom of the South Island New Zealand. Zone 9 maritime climate 1100mm rainfall pa.

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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2007, 03:11:49 AM »
Nah, that's my brother Kevin!!  He was actually in the Guiness Book of Records one year for crawling 14 1/2 miles (or something like that, I can't recall exactly) around his school oval.  I think it was around the 1980 edition.  So I'd have to defer to him as the crawler in the family, not me!!  ;D
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Re: unknown Asteraceace ?.
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2007, 10:27:29 PM »
"Silly goat" would be appropriate as the plant (remember that) reminds me of a pink version of Goat's Beard (Tragopodon pratensis), aka "Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon".
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