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Post by BarryRice on Apr 8, 2008 17:30:15 GMT
Hey Folks, Lately my wife and I have been visiting a nearby mesa and photographing some of the flowers there. Our last trip out, we took Stephen Davis, his wife, and daughter; as well as Fernando Rivadavia. We all had a fine time. Anyway, one spring wildflower that always reminds me of Dionaea in flower was in fine form: Limnanthes douglasii subsp. rosea. I present to you...the false Venus flytrap!
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Post by ICPS-bob on Apr 8, 2008 18:04:24 GMT
Well .... perhaps from a distance. This from wikimedia commons: Whereas, compare with the Real Deal
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Post by BarryRice on Apr 9, 2008 0:52:45 GMT
Well sheesh, Bob, throw me a bone! You have to admit that there are some pretty good similarities. I'm not arguing taxonomic relationships...I'm just saying they kind of look similar. Say, you aren't related to James Garfield, 20th president of the USA, are you?
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Post by ICPS-bob on Apr 9, 2008 2:51:47 GMT
I did throw you a bone. I said it perhaps looks like Dionaea from a distance. Notice the lack of receding hairline! Wasn't Garfield the guy who got shot and killed by an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post? Truly, Barry, I have no consular posts to offer. -- Would you consider a post as Editor of CPN?
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Post by philgreen on Apr 12, 2008 9:04:11 GMT
Hi Barry, I hadn't realised there was a subsp of this plant. Without the yellow centre I didn't recognise it. I grow the regular form (well actually I weed out a mass of it every year and keep some), and it's one I look forward to each spring.
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