Comments on: Great Malvern http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72 All the pig that's fit to saw Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-34 Nik Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:34:56 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-34 Thanks for that, Liz. Forget-me-not seems close. We started looking at forget-me-nots and widened the search to borage. We now think that it might be green alkanet, which is part of the borage family, and therefore a sibling of forget-me-not. A picture of green alkanet is linked from here (click on pentaglottis sempervirens): http://www.floralimages.co.uk/index3.htm#Boraginaceae and more pictures linked from here: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T1195.HTM The green alkanet pictures above suggest a slightly more ridged petal. But the leaf, buds, stem and the white bit in the middle are all identical. Thanks for that, Liz. Forget-me-not seems close. We started looking at forget-me-nots and widened the search to borage. We now think that it might be green alkanet, which is part of the borage family, and therefore a sibling of forget-me-not.

A picture of green alkanet is linked from here (click on pentaglottis sempervirens):

http://www.floralimages.co.uk/index3.htm#Boraginaceae

and more pictures linked from here:

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T1195.HTM

The green alkanet pictures above suggest a slightly more ridged petal. But the leaf, buds, stem and the white bit in the middle are all identical.

]]> By: Liz http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-33 Liz Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:45:48 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-33 Speedwells have 4 petals, this has 5; probably escaped garden forget-me-not , there are 3 wild species but wrong habitat Speedwells have 4 petals, this has 5; probably escaped garden forget-me-not , there are 3 wild species but wrong habitat

]]> By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-32 Nik Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:01:48 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-32 Yes, gosh darn it, it is. And tantalisingly out of reach. Actually I bought a handy guide for a friend at Christmas - Wild Flowers from Collins Nature Guides, by W. Lippert, D. Podleich. It handily groups the flowers by colour, so people like me can say "Er, it was sort of blue-ish", and dive into the sort-of-blue-ish section. (Whereas grouping by, say, DNA code, I find somewhat problematic.) Yes, gosh darn it, it is. And tantalisingly out of reach.

Actually I bought a handy guide for a friend at Christmas - Wild Flowers from Collins Nature Guides, by W. Lippert, D. Podleich. It handily groups the flowers by colour, so people like me can say “Er, it was sort of blue-ish”, and dive into the sort-of-blue-ish section. (Whereas grouping by, say, DNA code, I find somewhat problematic.)

]]> By: Pashmina http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-31 Pashmina Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:11:18 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-31 Hmm. That is indeed an accolade, as long as I'm not the only guess to date, that is. *looks around comments box* In any event, I'm afraid it was my only guess. What you need is <a href="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0713659440.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" rel="nofollow">a handy book</a> in fact, isn't that your fella on the cover? Hmm. That is indeed an accolade, as long as I’m not the only guess to date, that is.
*looks around comments box*

In any event, I’m afraid it was my only guess. What you need is a handy book

in fact, isn’t that your fella on the cover?

]]> By: Nik http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-28 Nik Tue, 31 May 2005 16:52:23 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-28 Ah, you got my hopes up, there, but the speedwell doesn't match the pictures here: http://www.all-creatures.org/picb/wfshl-slenderspeedwell.html The speedwell's petals are bit more elongated, and they have little pokey things poking out of them (stamens and pistil, apparently). But you do have the accolade of being the best guess yet. Ah, you got my hopes up, there, but the speedwell doesn’t match the pictures here:

http://www.all-creatures.org/picb/wfshl-slenderspeedwell.html

The speedwell’s petals are bit more elongated, and they have little pokey things poking out of them (stamens and pistil, apparently). But you do have the accolade of being the best guess yet.

]]> By: Pashmina http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-27 Pashmina Tue, 31 May 2005 15:28:18 +0000 http://blog.pigsaw.org/permalink/2005/05/30/72#comment-27 Isn't that speedwell? I'm no expert, mind. Isn’t that speedwell? I’m no expert, mind.

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