Puzzles

[Ragged Robin]

Today a puzzle from me :

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

any ideas 

A quill....of a hedgehog  

[Hans J]

Very quick !

100 points for Ashley and Cliff !!!

so far i have read are this pigs natural in Sicily .....but now after your comments I'm not longer shure  

I see this puzzle was to easy !

[Paul T]

Hans,

Cliff mentioned that it was rare but not extinct in Sicily, so they are still found there by the sound of it.  Maybe they were still more common when you found the quill, as you mentioned it was some years ago?

[ashley]

Great minds think alike, Ashley?   

Bingo Cliff 

Hans, our information came from here. 
Paul's right; this species is on the Red List - see here. 

[Hans J]

Paul - I have found it in year 2001 .....and really far away from Palermo....

In wikipedia and other sources is descript this animal for Sicily ,Albania,northern Greece .....

Maybe knows our italian members more ?

[Lesley Cox]

I agree with Paul, a fig of some sort, for the previous puzzle.

[Lvandelft]

Sorry Lesley et all, I will help a little. Figs are edible and so are parts of this plant too.
I really thought , it being to easy but...
Picture two:

[Lesley Cox]

I'm still none the wiser. Those look like emerging flowers? which maybe become fruit? I'm not at all good at these puzzles, though I'm a dab hand at Sudoku.

[Paddy Tobin]

Luit,

Rheum?

Paddy

[ranunculus]

Oh Paddy, your timing was superb!  I was just about to post -

An emerging rheum?  An excellent puzzle sir!  

[Paddy Tobin]

Cliff,

I like my rhubarb, particularly good crop this year and lots of rhubarb recipes though I don't think Luit's is one of the edible varieties; Rheum palmatum or some such.

Paddy

[Lvandelft]

Cliff,

I like my rhubarb, particularly good crop this year and lots of rhubarb recipes though I don't think Luit's is one of the edible varieties; Rheum palmatum or some such.

Paddy

This discussion gave me the idea. So it had to be an Irish winner     Rheum palmatum Heartswood Hartwood Purple. (edit L.)
Hardly believed it was difficult but I saw daily developments. It's so amazing to see how fast these plant are growing.
Here is picture nr. 3, for in case it would be necessary.  I give a picture of the whole plant tomorrow.

[Ragged Robin]

A really great visual puzzle! Thanks Luit for the idea of your emerging Rheum palmatum Heartswood Purple and the way you photographed it was a real teaser 

The porcupine quill was another really interesting subject that Hans posed and I had no idea that they lived, if only rarely in Sicily.  Cliff's answer led to some fascinating posting. 

The only unsolved puzzle is Anne's question about genera anagrams - still thinking about them....maybe there is a clue lurking somewhere 

[Hans J]

Robin ,

which question do you mean with the anagram of genera ?

I can not found it ....

[Ragged Robin]

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?

This is it Hans a few postings back in puzzles