January 2013 - A is for ......

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Chris L wrote:Has any one worked out my 5 A's? There are six if you count "Apex" as one.
Aberrance for it's lack of the usual flocking?
Actinomorphy for its symmetrical flowers?
Acute petals? (or are they attenuate or even acuminate?)
Anthers?
That it is experiencing its anthesis?
The areoles?
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Phil_SK wrote:
Chris L wrote:Has any one worked out my 5 A's? There are six if you count "Apex" as one.
Aberrance for it's lack of the usual flocking?
Actinomorphy for its symmetrical flowers?
Acute petals? (or are they attenuate or even acuminate?)
Anthers?
That it is experiencing its anthesis?
The areoles?

1. Aberrance for it's lack of the usual flocking? (Though I was thinking of the word altogether)
2. Anthers?
3. The areoles?
4. Apex
5. Astrophytum
6 . Angles
Actinomorphy for its symmetrical flowers?
Acute petals? (or are they attenuate or even acuminate?)
That it is experiencing its anthesis?

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If you often end up reading first descriptions I can recommend this: http://www.bcss.org.uk/book_contents/glossary.php
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Chris u 4got air lol (tu)
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Hi,
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Just two with as many "A's" as I could find:-
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Aeonium 'Rangitoto'

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...Alba, Westfield Alba.
Chamaelobivia "Westfield Alba"
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Nice to see such a wide selection of plants :grin:

While some of you have perhaps concentrated on getting as many A's as possible my botanical latin isn't good enough to find as many as Phil_SK so I cannot judge on that basis. What I was hoping for when I set the subject was to see some plants whose name did not immediately seem to fit ie whose name did not start with A.

Sheila's asymetrical Matucana interexta came very close to winning but the photograph that has won is...



dramatic pause







even longer pause







Eriosyce andreaeana by Jens who should perhaps have entered it with one of its synonyms Acanthocalycium andreaeanum
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Congratulations, Jens. Lovely flower. (tu)
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