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mark smyth

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1590 on: August 15, 2011, 06:37:39 PM »
a sequence for you
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1591 on: August 15, 2011, 06:46:11 PM »
I still haven't the faintest idea!  ???
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1592 on: August 15, 2011, 07:12:40 PM »
Maggi this is why I'm posting photos. Tomorrow the whole thing in my hand and then as it is on the plant.

No one has noted that I said it's a rare plant
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1593 on: August 15, 2011, 07:26:19 PM »
It's a great puzzle, that's for sure  ;D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1594 on: August 15, 2011, 07:39:02 PM »
Well I suppose as it's you Mark, it wouldn't be the Bat Plant by any chance?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1595 on: August 15, 2011, 07:44:15 PM »
Quote from: Brian Ellis on August 15, 2011, 07:39:02 PM
Well I suppose as it's you Mark, it wouldn't be the Bat Plant by any chance?
no.

It's a rare British native
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1596 on: August 15, 2011, 08:21:23 PM »
Can't wait to find out. I have no idea.

Angie :)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1597 on: August 15, 2011, 10:52:15 PM »
I'd like to think it was a black truffle. 8)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1598 on: August 15, 2011, 11:28:19 PM »
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1599 on: August 15, 2011, 11:49:18 PM »
It's fabulous.... but I still don't know what it is!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1600 on: August 16, 2011, 12:32:24 AM »
I peeled the outside to reveal the inside
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1601 on: August 16, 2011, 01:33:44 AM »
Corn-cockle seeds?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1602 on: August 16, 2011, 10:56:50 AM »
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1603 on: August 16, 2011, 11:14:59 AM »
Well done Anthony. What gave it away? Rare?

Maggi your link shows what must be very old seeds. I''ll post a photo later

Would anyone like some seeds?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1604 on: August 16, 2011, 11:38:28 AM »
I've seen them before many years ago, but only twigged when you said you'd peeled the outside. Checked on line: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/14230388@N03/tags/seed/
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