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Hans J

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Puzzles 2013
« on: July 23, 2013, 01:53:53 PM »
I have not found a other topic for puzzles in 2013 so I open here a new topic

Who know this plant ?

A little help : it is not a cacti  ;)

Have fun
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2013, 02:04:28 PM »
Solanaceae, maybe Solanum pyracanthum?
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2013, 02:06:43 PM »
sigh sigh sigh ...to easy ....

...Ashley - you are 100% right !

Do you grow this plant too ?
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2013, 02:18:20 PM »
Well done, Ashley! I had no idea ..... what a remarkable plant .
Nasty, dangerous looking thing - but  what a beautiful construction.
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2013, 02:32:33 PM »
I don't grow it Hans but it's a spectacular (& scary) thing.
So many Solanaceae are well armed, physically and pharmacologically.  They must have evolved in rough neighbourhoods ;D
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2013, 02:39:52 PM »
Looks like the sort of plant that I sit on whilst trying to photograph something else.   :-\
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2013, 02:45:58 PM »
Quote from: ashley on July 23, 2013, 02:32:33 PM
I don't grow it Hans but it's a spectacular (& scary) thing.
So many Solanaceae are well armed, physically and pharmacologically. They must have evolved in rough neighbourhoods ;D

 ;D -  very likely!

I've read that this plant is resistant to deer atack - surprise surprise! Though I would have thought that members of the solanaceae were safer from  being eaten by deer because of their toxicity rather than needing great spines all over their leaves.... :-\

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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2013, 06:00:36 PM »
Saw it for sale in the US and friend was trying to convince me to buy one to bring home!!   Could you imagine customs finding that
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2013, 03:20:47 AM »
I'm not giving any clues.
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2013, 12:09:39 PM »
Look like Bluebottle stingers from washed up on beach ,Gordon Julian tasmania
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2013, 11:06:25 PM »
Yup, aka Portuguese Man o' War. found on Muriwai beach, west of Auckland. There were dozens of them. These were trapped in grass at the top of the beach and had dried to a crisp. On my first visit I wore my Clarks sandals, which have magnetic clasps. The titanomagnetite sand stuck to the magnets and it was the devil to remove it all!
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2013, 11:18:40 AM »
This caused a bit of a second look. This was after some rain.
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2013, 12:09:48 PM »
Hmmm, did someone overdo the dusting with "flowers of Sulphur"? ;D
Or are the pines shedding pollen already?
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2013, 12:55:37 PM »
I suspect this was one of the culprits? The pollen was on every road and pavement I crossed for miles around. Before it rained, my cars was covered!
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Re: Puzzles 2013
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2013, 03:52:49 PM »
 :) That looks like an arboreal Lachanalia - which I am pretty sure it is not!! What is it?
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