Thanks. I never suspected that the macademia was that closely related to the protea. Very interesting!
Dan On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:57 -0400, "Daniel J. Matyola" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, for your comments, Brian. >> >> I thought the second one might also be a leucospermum sp., but the >> first looks a bit different. Some sources state that leucospermum is >> a type of protea, others treat it as different from the proteas. I >> was searching for the common names for these; most proteas have >> descriptive names like "Pink Mink," "King," Pinwheel" "Pink Ice" >> "Pincushion" "Sugarbush," etc. > > > Putting on my amateur botanist hat :-)> > > The genera Leucospermum, Leucadendron, Protea, Banksia, Macadamia and a > host of others are all members of the Protea family but only the genus > Protea is a 'true' protea. That doesn't stop florists calling any of > them proteas. > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > >> >> Dan >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:20 -0400, "Daniel J. Matyola" >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Two more flower images from last month in Maui. I call these >> >> pincushion proteas, but I'm not sure that is the correct name? Any >> >> "experts" here who can identify them or point me in the right >> >> direction? >> >> >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12815729 >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12815726 >> > >> > >> > >> > These are called "proteas" in common usage but, like the image you >> > posted a week or so ago, they are members of the Protea family but >> > aren't true proteas. Like the previous plant, I'm fairly certain these >> > are in the genus Leucospermum. >> > >> > I agree with Ann - the first one is particularly effective. >> > >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Brian > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
