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BoTanica
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23/03/2010 11:45 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 1 of 7 in Discussion |
| Playing with the dog in the garden this morning and came across an awful smell. I thought it would be a dead hedgehog or something but it was a beautiful Dragon arum flower almost 25cm high. I heard that they grew here but haden't yet seen one - so I was very exited!! The flower is almost black and absolutely stunning. Its botanical name is Dracunculus vulgaris if you want to look it up. |
FISHNCHIPS
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23/03/2010 15:42 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 2 of 7 in Discussion |
| hows about posting a picture botanica, and is this the same sort of flower they have in kew gardens that only flowers every so many years? |
BoTanica
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24/03/2010 09:19 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 3 of 7 in Discussion |
| Sorry - don't have a camera!! It isn't the one at Kew, thats a really tropical one - this is an annual arum flower. Heres one off the net that is exactly the same as "mine".
http://www.west-crete.com/dailypics/photos/644.jpg |
booitsme
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24/03/2010 13:15 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 4 of 7 in Discussion |
| Hi BoTanica, we have quite a few growing around the Tatlisu area and were going to try to "borrow" some for the garden until a qualfied horticulturalist (Turkish not British) told us they are very poisonous to animals! I must say when our little JRT found one he tried to pounce on it to eat it - he wasn't the sort of dog to just eat anything - so we were lucky we were pre-warned and pulled him away. So yes, beautiful but deadly to animals so please don't let your dog near it! |
daisy dukes
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24/03/2010 13:23 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 5 of 7 in Discussion |
| Blimey...maybe this is the culprit for some of the poisonings....i mean, quite a lot of dogs love the smell of rotting flesh...mmmm, tasty!! 
DD |
FISHNCHIPS
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24/03/2010 16:07 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 6 of 7 in Discussion |
| are these carnivorous? thanks for the picture botanica |
Krin52
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24/03/2010 16:09 | | Join or Login to Reply | Message 7 of 7 in Discussion |
| Didn't Hans post some photos of one of these last year? |
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