Date: 1/09/2012 18:34:30
From: roughbarked
ID: 195137
Subject: what flower is that?

Well, you lot were asking.. so I thought it could do with a thread. Maybe a passing botanist will take note.

Here’s mine..

DSC_1636

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Date: 1/09/2012 18:49:03
From: Spider Lily
ID: 195145
Subject: re: what flower is that?

roughbarked said:


Well, you lot were asking.. so I thought it could do with a thread. Maybe a passing botanist will take note.

Here’s mine..

DSC_1636

Sorry I’m not able to assist in identifying but just wanted to say “Wow” :D

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Date: 1/09/2012 18:50:53
From: buffy
ID: 195148
Subject: re: what flower is that?

It’s a daisy.

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Date: 1/09/2012 18:52:36
From: roughbarked
ID: 195149
Subject: re: what flower is that?

buffy said:

It’s a daisy.

heh.. well yeah. Asteraceae .. most likely..

The flower is not larger than a 20 cent piece

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Date: 1/09/2012 18:53:01
From: Bubble Car
ID: 195150
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Looks well past its prime.

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Date: 1/09/2012 18:57:16
From: roughbarked
ID: 195155
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Bubble Car said:


Looks well past its prime.

There were only a few plants and they were all mostly seeded. Though they each had a last flower trying.

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Date: 2/09/2012 01:41:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 195290
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Spider Lily said:

Sorry I’m not able to assist in identifying but just wanted to say “Wow” :D

Yes. Wow was what said too. I don’t recall ever seeing this flower before.
I’d think it was likely something from South Africa, possibly.

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Date: 2/09/2012 08:59:57
From: roughbarked
ID: 195304
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Anyway, so far it isn’t listed on the weed map http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=region.tpl&state=nsw®ion=riv

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Date: 2/09/2012 09:20:20
From: buffy
ID: 195312
Subject: re: what flower is that?

My pattern recognition system suggests Tagetes (marigold) for the way the petals curl back and the general form. The seed pod looks a bit odd though. There are single forms in those colourings.

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Date: 2/09/2012 09:41:52
From: roughbarked
ID: 195320
Subject: re: what flower is that?

buffy said:

My pattern recognition system suggests Tagetes (marigold) for the way the petals curl back and the general form. The seed pod looks a bit odd though. There are single forms in those colourings.

Yes there are similarities to margold, zinnia and gazania, flower colours and petals.
I think we can safely say it belongs to Asteraceae.

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Date: 2/09/2012 10:03:32
From: neomyrtus_
ID: 195322
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Monoculus monstrosus

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Date: 2/09/2012 10:13:26
From: morrie
ID: 195323
Subject: re: what flower is that?

neomyrtus_ said:


Monoculus monstrosus

The one-eyed monster?

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:45:59
From: roughbarked
ID: 195355
Subject: re: what flower is that?

I’m not one eyed and I’m no monster. ;)

smells strongly like marigold.
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Date: 2/09/2012 11:48:06
From: kii
ID: 195356
Subject: re: what flower is that?

OX and XU = 50 points in Scrabble.

Take that, mr kii!!

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:50:36
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 195358
Subject: re: what flower is that?

>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:52:17
From: kii
ID: 195359
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Sorry….too much excitement in Scrabble :/

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:52:35
From: morrie
ID: 195360
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Peak Warming Man said:


>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.


If you look closely you will see that it is a South African introduction.

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:52:51
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 195362
Subject: re: what flower is that?

>>OX and XU = 50 points in Scrabble.

Those words fall outside the Scrabble guidelines I’m afraid, you will receive no points for them and you could also possibly be fined.

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Date: 2/09/2012 11:53:53
From: kii
ID: 195364
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Peak Warming Man said:


>>OX and XU = 50 points in Scrabble.

Those words fall outside the Scrabble guidelines I’m afraid, you will receive no points for them and you could also possibly be fined.

Shut up, just shut up…the game recognised them :P

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:00:08
From: roughbarked
ID: 195367
Subject: re: what flower is that?

morrie said:


Peak Warming Man said:

>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.


If you look closely you will see that it is a South African introduction.

I reckoned it looked to be South African rather than Australian but I still can’t find a reference yet via searching the net.

I’m quite a way from Victoria.. closest part of it is at least 250 km away.

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:00:49
From: neomyrtus_
ID: 195368
Subject: re: what flower is that?

Peak Warming Man said:


>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.

http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/taxa/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:541313#mapView

pffft

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:18:19
From: roughbarked
ID: 195372
Subject: re: what flower is that?

neomyrtus_ said:


Peak Warming Man said:

>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.

http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/taxa/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:541313#mapView

pffft

Forking ala barstewards left me behind .. My computer is out of date.. I cannoy utilise the ala pages.. not my fault that I cannot keep up with technology.

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:27:06
From: roughbarked
ID: 195374
Subject: re: what flower is that?

roughbarked said:


neomyrtus_ said:

Peak Warming Man said:

>>Monoculus monstrosus

Umm I thought Roughie was in Victoria, that plant would seem to be a WA regional plant.

http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/taxa/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:541313#mapView

pffft

Forking ala barstewards left me behind .. My computer is out of date.. I cannoy utilise the ala pages.. not my fault that I cannot keep up with technology.

OK I can read this much of the ALA pages.. that there have been no human observations in NSW. Well there is now.

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:33:47
From: neomyrtus_
ID: 195380
Subject: re: what flower is that?

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Monoculus~monstrosus

FWIW – people don’t tend to lodge weeds in herbaria except the hardy few, which is why records will be down and inadequate. They’re too busy lodging overcollected orchids to lodge a miserable stinking weed.

And the bioinformaticians involved with ALA tend to assume that users have upgraded their software and hardware since 1992.

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:38:56
From: roughbarked
ID: 195384
Subject: re: what flower is that?

DSC_1699

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Date: 2/09/2012 12:40:51
From: roughbarked
ID: 195386
Subject: re: what flower is that?

neomyrtus_ said:


http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Monoculus~monstrosus

FWIW – people don’t tend to lodge weeds in herbaria except the hardy few, which is why records will be down and inadequate. They’re too busy lodging overcollected orchids to lodge a miserable stinking weed.

And the bioinformaticians involved with ALA tend to assume that users have upgraded their software and hardware since 1992.

Fair enough about the inadequacies. This computer was made in 2003 but it cannot run firefox later than 3.6.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Firefox/3.6.28

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