Puzzles

[Maggi Young]

Or a banana flower bud?

That's what I was thinking, Lesley.... but it has a bulb.......hmmmmmm.....must be  a lily of some sort, going by the lily petal appearance ...... but I know of no sort of lily that looks like this ...... and I surely haven't eaten it ..... I tend to remember that sort of thing 
This is a fine puzzle. Photogenic thing, whatever it is!

[Lvandelft]

After I gave my first answer about edible bulbs, I saw the other reactions and David's answer made me laugh, so that I had to take a short break 
Sorry about that, Maggi, but well ..  laughing people live longer.
Then I saw that Arisaema must be a lily specialist.
Very smart indeed 
I for myself had never seen such a thing before, but seeing Arisaema's answer, there seems to be a market for it 
Just the people who buy such flowers will await futile until it opens, I'm afraid...

Lilium Doubleen 1                           
Lilium Doubleen 2                     
Lilium Doubleen 3     

[arisaema]

I for myself had never seen such a thing before, but seeing Arisaema's answer, there seems to be a market for it   

Seeing it in all it's (lack of) glory nearly cured the desire, too bad it never opens...

[Maggi Young]

I would agree with you that laughter is a wonderful medicine, Luit,and one I like to enjoy several times and hour, never mind per day!   Natural endorphins.... you can't better them, not even with chocolate.

Will there really be a market for these deformed lily flowers??      I suppose in the cut-flower market there is business scope for all things  


 Arisaema, I am glad you have come to your senses!

[Martin Baxendale]

The leaves look like longiflorum. Is that L. longiflorum 'Pink Lady' on the right? It's a lovely thing but no-one in the UK seems to sell it any more and my bulbs seem to be virussed by the look of the flower buds this year.

[Lesley Cox]

You mean THAT's IT??? It doesn't open any more than that? Well it needn't bother, so far as I'm concerned.

[Paul T]

Reminds me of the old "shrimp plant" (Justicia brandegeana) flowers.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Paul, I had that thought niggling me, too, but I could NOT remember the name of it!
That was what I would call a multi-puzzle, in my case!!  

[arisaema]

This one should be fairly easy, it's definitely something everyone's heard about

[arisaema]

No one..? It really is easy, in particular for those across the pond

[tonyg]

Japanese Knotweed?
That is certainly one we would choose to miss if we could

[David Shaw]

Do the leaves and the flower stem belong to the same plant? The flower stem looks a bit like a Saxifrage such as mutata.

[Giles]

Puzzling, certainly.

[Maggi Young]

That is puzzling, Giles..... part of a drive to provide more public conveniences in a national park? Very public, in this case 


Your post has reminded me that I am STILL at a loss to name the plant arisaema showed in his pic above, from June 26, 2009, 09:28:51 PM.......

[ranunculus]

Good receptacle for bog plants, Giles?