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15-08-2011, 06:58 PM
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| | | identification please?
Can anyone tell me what this plant/flower is. 
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15-08-2011, 06:59 PM
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Common toadflax - welcome to WAB 
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15-08-2011, 07:05 PM
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Thanks Johnny.
I thought it would have a more ..... um.... romantic name! lol
It looked like a beautiful orchid! |
15-08-2011, 07:08 PM
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Well another common name for it is butter and eggs... still not so romantic...  
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15-08-2011, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Johnny81  Common toadflax - welcome to WAB | Common toadflax?..I quite agree lanie, couldn't get much more common that...
I found a beautiful flower in the meadow today, and on looking it up, was it a rare orchid? Nooo, it was meadow vetchling,
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15-08-2011, 07:13 PM
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Indeed you have to be careful with those plants that look like they have a lip (hence the orchid confusion)- most are probably from the lamium or mints or in this case the Scrophularia family!
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15-08-2011, 07:13 PM
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| | | Re: identification please?
Be grateful we don't use the old apothecaries' name Urinalis; so called because the flowers are yellow, like urine and it was thus used as a diuretic. 
Geoffrey Grigson (The Englishman's Flora) says the Norwegian name is cod's mouth.
Other names are eggs and collop, buttered haycocks, dragon-bushes and doggies.
Shame we've lost touch with some of these colloquial names for plants. 
Mel
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15-08-2011, 07:16 PM
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I like "dragon-bushes" fitting to I think - whats a collop? 
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15-08-2011, 08:07 PM
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Err, collop...let's see....Grigson says it means bacon. Wikipedia says slices of meat.
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