The Dutch ox-tongue is a different flower, according Wiki Anchusa
officinalis, commonly known as the common bugloss or alkanet
Henk
Op 2018-06-20 om 09:30 schreef Alan C:
Shhhh. You'll kill the ox-tongue industry.
Alan C
On 06/20/2018 8:57 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
"Something to do with cattle", I thought, because of bu-. It should
have then followed that -gloss = tongue, but it's too early in the
morning for me to spot that.
Anyway, it's apparently ox-tongue. Bu = bos, as in bovine, boeuf,
beef; gloss as in glossary.
B
On 20 Jun 2018, at 07:20, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
The English name, Viper's Bugloss, is much more interesting. I have
no idea of the etymology.
On 19 June 2018 at 22:07 Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Dan and Ann.
The blue flowers with the poppy in the third pic is Echium vulgare or
blueweed according Wikipedia. These are here quite abundant as well at
present and the bees like them.
Henk
Op 2018-06-19 om 22:51 schreef ann sanfedele:
Henk,
enjoyed the whole gallery so much -- the orchids are nice , but a
number of others really talked to me more.. and I dont see thatyou
had
shared those with PDML before.
These:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42102765704/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/41915613115/in/photostream/
and this one
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/42777152291/in/photostream/
a lonely orange bloom among the purple stalks - which look to me
to be
a poppy and pentstamon-
ann
On 6/19/2018 4:35 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
It looks like we had a good year for this type of wild orchid as
I've
seen here so many in the wet fields in our dunes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mxer/29033030688/in/photostream/
Henk
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