Re: PESO: Can you identify this flower?

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Sullivan
Bottlebrush plant? On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Dan Matyola danmaty...@verizon.net wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8778984size=md Found this in the US Botanic Garden, but forgot to identify it while there.  Does anyone know what it is? Comments welcome Dan -- PDML

Re: PESO: Can you identify this flower?

2009-05-08 Thread mike wilson
The red filaments of the anthers are similar but the total shape is not right, nor is the leaf shape or arrangement. http://www.anbg.gov.au/callistemon/index.html Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Bottlebrush plant? On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Dan Matyola

Re: PESO: Can you identify this flower?

2009-05-08 Thread AlunFoto
Some sort of gum tree? combination of leaves and general flower architecture reminds me of Tupelo Gum. Here's one shot I made of that in NC back in 2004 (just after GFM): http://fotofil.no/aspx/ShowImage/joe0041.aspx Jostein 2009/5/8 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: The red filaments of the

Re: PESO: Can you identify this flower?

2009-05-08 Thread mike wilson
The nearest I can get to it is family. I think it is possibly somewhere in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtaceae The leaves are evergreen, alternate to mostly opposite, simple, and usually with an entire (not toothed) margin. The flowers have a base number of five petals, though in

PESO: Can you identify this flower?

2009-05-07 Thread Dan Matyola
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8778984size=md Found this in the US Botanic Garden, but forgot to identify it while there. Does anyone know what it is? Comments welcome Dan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to