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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:23 pm

Interesting post and story Chuck.

Scientific name: Anax longipes

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:27 pm

What is this?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:14 pm

desert mariposa
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:34 pm

chuck wrote:desert mariposa

Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly.
Desert mariposa is also a wild flower, perhaps the Desert Mariposa Lily, Calochortus kennedyi.
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What did you have in mind, animal, vegetable or mineral?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:41 pm

plant
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:54 pm

chuck wrote:plant

I'll give it to you. The image is cropped from the last flower of this season on my Cow's Tongue Cactus.

A bee photobombed the picture while the camera's timer was counting down.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:58 pm

smart bee :D
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:59 pm

I suspect everyone will know what cactus produces flowers like this. Name the cactus.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:30 pm

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:45 pm

chuck wrote:Cereus? Night Blooming?[/url]


Used to have one of those; seems to me that the flower on it was a lot more "trumpet-like"..........

Been a while since I've had any of my cacti bloom here in VA; one of the aloes did while indoors a few months past - unexpected....almost missed it being in the dormant room with the rest of the plants.
What if lollipops moaned every time we licked them?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:55 pm

chuck wrote:Cereus? Night Blooming?

Easy whatzit. One of the many night bloming cereus cactus.

The trumpet shape is hidden by the angle of view and perhaps the lighting... a flashlight at 2 AM. I kept the flashlight beam off of the other cactus in the garden in order to create a black surround.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:58 pm

webenda wrote:
chuck wrote:Cereus? Night Blooming?

Easy whatzit. One of the many night bloming cereus cactus.

The trumpet shape is hidden by the angle of view and perhaps the lighting... a flashlight at 2 AM. I kept the flashlight beam off of the other cactus in the garden in order to create a black surround.


I've just never really looked the bloom head on.
What if lollipops moaned every time we licked them?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:33 pm

By far the best photo I've seen of the flower. Very nice technique of using the flashlight as a mini-spot. Thanks for posting that gorgeous photo.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:41 am

I found something interesting in Marana, Arizona yesterday, June 03, 2020. I think it might make a good Whatzit subject.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:51 am

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