Grrrr, I should know this plant but my brian fails me today. The internet has failed and so too have my books. This guy has a bright yellow 5 petals maybe with a big clump of red stamens in the centre. Looks like a Cochlospermum flower but it ain’t no kapok. Big fleshy leaves. Trying photobucket at the moment to get a photo, but the internet is a dial up nightmare today.
Anyone help?
Not one of the portulacas?
Very wild guess.
buffy said:
Not one of the portulacas?
Very wild guess.
sorry buffy, but I like your thinking… nah this is a tree.
Oh, it would have to be a big portulaca then, wouldn’t it!!!
Frangipani?
;)
buffy said:
Oh, it would have to be a big portulaca then, wouldn’t it!!!
Frangipani?
;)
:D I’d know a Plumeria if it whacked me on the nose!
is it native? maybe the botanical keys for your district :)
trichome said:
is it native? maybe the botanical keys for your district :)
tried that… the JCU one is good, but still no answer.
Here’s a photo. I know Bubba knows it.
pain master said:
trichome said:
is it native? maybe the botanical keys for your district :)
tried that… the JCU one is good, but still no answer.
Here’s a photo. I know Bubba knows it.
I haven’t got the foggiest. But I like the contrast between the red and the yellow.
pain master said:
trichome said:
is it native? maybe the botanical keys for your district :)
tried that… the JCU one is good, but still no answer.
Here’s a photo. I know Bubba knows it.
Soory. Never seen one before.
Dillenia alata
bubba louie said:
Dillenia alata
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
pain master said:
bubba louie said:
Dillenia alatayesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
I should have looked at my map of PNG.
pain master said:
bubba louie said:
Dillenia alatayesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
The queen of google strikes again.
bubba louie said:
pain master said:
bubba louie said:
Dillenia alatayesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
The queen of google strikes again.
what did you google? Mine failed.
pain master said:
bubba louie said:
pain master said:yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
The queen of google strikes again.
what did you google? Mine failed.
I just put in the basic desciption.
Tree + yellow flower + five petals + red stamens
Then google images and scroll through. Works 90% of the time.
Yeah but, yeah but…..you said fleshy leaves! They look like leathery leaves!
:)
Bu which I mean I saw that flower in my Google search and discarded it! I obviously know too much about the Southern plants and nothing much about the Northern ones. Except the bleeding heart and the native frangipani.
This bleeding heart, not the pretty flower exotic one….
buffy said:
Yeah but, yeah but…..you said fleshy leaves! They look like leathery leaves!
:)
I was going on memory… and I think I used the term “fleshy” because they were not thin and papery.