Puzzles

[Lvandelft]

I know its been a long time but is yours Asarum pulchellum Luit???

Tony, I came to the wrong solution (Pulsatilla stem) because the attachment from the stem
to the flower basis is looking almost the same on Cliff's picture as my plant.
To make it very easy here is a flower

[Anthony Darby]

Very pretty what ever it is?

[Diane Clement]

To make it very easy here is a flower 

I lost the plot of this but the picture shows the definitely hairy Saruma henryi - an anagram of Asarum so Tony was nearly correct. 


Can I do another from this: Whose favourite plant was Saruma? 
And completely unrelated: what other genera have been made up as anagrams?

[Lvandelft]

To make it very easy here is a flower 

I lost the plot of this but the picture shows the definitely hairy Saruma henryi - an anagram of Asarum so Tony was nearly correct. 

Yes it is Diane, but with the flower it was rather easy.
The other entries I made before were in replies 251 and 257.

[Lvandelft]

I took this picture last week in our garden.
Probably too easy for many of you all, but maybe I am wrong.
Any guess?

[ranunculus]

Carnivorous, Luit?

[Maggi Young]

I took this picture last week in our garden.
Probably too easy for many of you all, but maybe I am wrong.
Any guess?

I think you hit your thumb with a hammer when you were mending a fence .... it looks very sore!

[Anthony Darby]

Oh, your thumb!

[Lvandelft]

I took this picture last week in our garden.
Probably too easy for many of you all, but maybe I am wrong.
Any guess?

I think you hit your thumb with a hammer when you were mending a fence .... it looks very sore!

Indeed, I do have two left hands, so might be a possibility...

Not carnivorous Cliff!

[Ragged Robin]

Is it some sort of embryo fruit?  Pomegranate    though I have never seen one growing and haven't a clue if it would grow in your garden Luit 

[Paul T]

Some sort of fig?

[Hans J]

Today a puzzle from me :

we found this by walkings in the mountains of Sicily before some years 

any ideas 

[ranunculus]

A porcupine quill, Hans?

[ashley]

Very nice Hans!  It's probably the shed spine from a crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata), rare in Sicily but found in southern Europe, North & West Africa.

[ranunculus]

Great minds think alike, Ashley?   

The common Old World crested porcupine (hystrix cristata), the same species present in northern Africa as far south as Ethiopia, is rare but not extinct in Sicily. What is amazing is the fact that it survives at all, the island's ecosystem having been largely compromised in the last century or so, and has been sighted in unlikely places like the Favorita Park (formerly a royal hunting ground) outside Palermo.

It is dark brown, grey and black, growing to a length of 70 centimeters and weighing as much as 15 kilograms. It should not be confused with the hedgehog, a superficially similar but smaller rodent. Porcupines are night creatures; daytime sightings are rare. they enjoy bushy areas, and in Sicily prefer terrain lower than one thousand meters high, where it rarely snows.

Porcupines (istice is the Italian word) appear to have few natural enemies (if man is excluded). The porcupine does not shoot its quills (spines) as folklore suggests. When menaced, it often chooses to flee, though porcupines can bite or claw adversaries, and may even charge backward, attempting to stab with their quills. The porcupine is generally considered the largest rodent present in Italy, where hares are also seen.

The crested porcupine lives in holes it burrows. It rarely attempts to climb trees but can swim. In winter, which is brief and not very cold in the parts of Sicily inhabited by porcupines, these creatures remain in their holes but do not actually hibernate. They consume bark, tubers, roots, berries and domestic crops, and have been known to hone their teeth by gnawing on bones.