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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #90 on: May 06, 2012, 12:16:35 PM »
I agree with Anthony,    Strongylodon macrobotrys, jade vine.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #91 on: May 06, 2012, 01:42:23 PM »
Well done Anthony, and Hoy perhaps not as easy as I originally thought ;)

Here is a picture of a single flower, a raceme and part of the plant, not at its best at this time of the year, but you can see on the right how some of the racemes almost came down to the ground.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #92 on: May 06, 2012, 11:58:28 PM »
What a lovely flower. A friend, living near Falkirk, has some vines in his greenhouse, although he got them after we moved here.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #93 on: May 07, 2012, 01:47:44 PM »
Yes it is really spectacular Anthony, the last picture shows the tunnel linking two glasshouses which is absolutely full of the vine, when we went before it was racemes falling everywhere, hopefully when we visit later this year it will be like that again.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #94 on: May 08, 2012, 04:05:21 PM »
Sooo totally wrong with Brian's puzzle.... :'( :-X

Here's a new one. I believe it's not so difficult as it looks :)
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #95 on: May 09, 2012, 07:09:31 PM »
May be a extended pictures helps?
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #96 on: May 09, 2012, 07:23:39 PM »
Maybe it helps....   South African flowers?
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #97 on: May 09, 2012, 09:43:24 PM »
No, much closer.... and to be honest more interesting than beautiful.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #98 on: May 09, 2012, 10:01:25 PM »
Oh..... I'm lost again then...... :-\
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #99 on: May 09, 2012, 10:25:19 PM »
O.k does it help when I say it's bulbous then. Cannot think of more clues, so next time I'll have to show the whole picture ::)
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #100 on: May 09, 2012, 10:31:12 PM »
I was thinking loose Chincherinchee buds (Ornithogalum thyrsoides) but I see that was not right.  :'(
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #101 on: May 10, 2012, 12:12:09 AM »
Some obscure form of Polianthes (Tuberose)?
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #102 on: May 10, 2012, 08:34:56 AM »
I think it looks like a green double tulip, which sits in an arrangement.
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #103 on: May 10, 2012, 10:20:26 AM »
Great Ulla! I knew it wasn't to difficult  ;D
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Re: Puzzles 2012
« Reply #104 on: May 10, 2012, 10:34:34 AM »
Ohhhh!  Well done , Ulla ! 8) :-*

I had quite mistaken the scale of the photo... but even if I had got that right, I still would  have been fooled! 
I think that was a good puzzle - difficult for me! :D
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