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Hans J

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1365 on: August 27, 2010, 08:34:53 PM »
Paddy 

I was shure that not so much people knows this plants ....it is really rare in my area ( I found it only 2 or 3 times in the wild ) ...and I know nobody who grow it in the garden !

Here is a ( bad ) pic from fruits and flowers ....
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1366 on: August 27, 2010, 08:37:13 PM »
Don't eat the berries!

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1367 on: August 27, 2010, 08:42:26 PM »
Paddy ,

the german name for this plant is : Tollkirsche !

"toll" means crazy !!!

My idea was that the women here will know this plants ....in earlier times the women used this fruits to get bigger eyes ( = belladonna ) .....
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1368 on: August 27, 2010, 09:22:11 PM »
Well done Folks... you're getting these puzzles in record fast times!
Some very interesting subjects , too. 8)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1369 on: August 27, 2010, 09:56:36 PM »
A puzzle and a challenge.

9.55PM here in Lancashire ... can we supply an answer by 10.15PM?   :D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1370 on: August 27, 2010, 09:59:19 PM »
Fruit of a magnolia?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1371 on: August 27, 2010, 10:03:29 PM »
You have over fifteen minutes to spare now Gail ... any good at song and dance?   ;D ;D ;D

Obviously TOO easy ... many congratulations.

MAGNOLIA SPRENGERI var. DIVA
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1372 on: August 27, 2010, 10:09:21 PM »
Hurrah! Are there some quality gardeners around here or what?  8) 8)
 Well done Gail!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1373 on: August 27, 2010, 10:12:46 PM »
Now if you had asked which species I would have been stumped...   :D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1374 on: August 27, 2010, 10:41:54 PM »
A puzzle without a solution this time ... unless YOU know different?

This item was photographed in a beech wood in Lancashire this week ... about the size of a honeydew melon ... any suggestions please? (and the first bright spark who suggests 'a rotting honeydew melon' will get detention and lines).   :D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1375 on: August 27, 2010, 10:50:50 PM »
This from a man labelled "all butter and lard"?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1376 on: August 28, 2010, 04:01:38 PM »
Is it one of the larger puff balls?

Here's one that's puzzling me. This field was a hay field and was ploughed very late spring and sown with what I thought was barley. It is mostly barley with some oats, but what are the purple flowers? There are two species.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1377 on: August 28, 2010, 07:55:56 PM »
Scabious?

Thistle?

Any closer shots?

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1378 on: August 28, 2010, 08:18:12 PM »
Neither plant would appear to be found wild locally!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1379 on: August 28, 2010, 08:28:31 PM »
Cliff,
no idea what yours is - moss with funghi?
Or a rotting hairball from an owl?

Anthony,
is it Phacelia? i.e. Phacelia tanacetifolia. It is often used as intercropping to improve soil conditions.
It is not winterhard and looks like an impurity in the barley seed.
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