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chris
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What is this flower?
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20 April, 2008, 02:56:12 pm »
OK, not an allotment question, but I saw lots of these in Scotland last week, and thought they were orchids, but a search on t'internet for pictures of orchids does not help identify it. I posted the same picture in OT gallery with a caption saying it was an orchid, but now I'm not so sure.
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Adrian
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20 April, 2008, 03:11:36 pm »
That looks like an orchid to me, with the ornately evolved petal and central column, but as to which type out of many thousands I have no idea.
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TimC
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20 April, 2008, 03:22:54 pm »
Looks like an Arum to me, possibly Arum Maculatum (Cuckoo Pint).
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rogerzilla
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20 April, 2008, 03:37:07 pm »
That's what I thought, although they're yellower than normal. Very poisonous.
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chris
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20 April, 2008, 04:55:41 pm »
Found it (I think). It's a Lysichiton americanum aka Skunk Cabbage.
http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/html/P4085915.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Skunk_Cabbage
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Treewheeler
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20 April, 2008, 07:59:41 pm »
Passed many today in cool wet valley near Liphook.
Argued with Mr Uberpants over what they were...
I think they naturalise very well and don't appear to have any negative invasive qualities.
Rather jolly in a marshy environment...
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Adrian
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20 April, 2008, 10:59:27 pm »
Well that shows the limit of my botanical knowledge.
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