Author Topic: Let's play "Stump the Donkey". (Read 5683 times)

tnlogger · « **Reply #20 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:36:29 pm »

camellia according to google this is what SD called it

me i'm lost

DanG · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:40:06 pm »

Nawp, it ain't no Camellia. The blossom does look similar, though...single petals and all.

Don't make me hafta tell ya what state claim's this as it's State Flower!

Tom · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:26:52 pm »

I know!! I know!!

DanG · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:41:11 pm »

I knew you knew all along, Tom. Why don't you just go on and tell the pore things, so I can get on with the rest of the tour?

The next one might even stump YOU! Well, probbly not, but I might have to post an update to clarify it.

Tom · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:54:27 pm »

Let me give a hint.

It's a wild single rose named after the Cherokee indians.

DanG · « **Reply #25 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:08:16 pm »

No, Tom. It's not the Iroquois Rose.

Ifn' they don't get it now, I'm gonna post it on the WoodWeb.

Riles · « **Reply #26 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:43:49 pm »

Georgia State Flower

Cherokee Rose
Rosa laevigata

In 1916, with the support of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, the Cherokee rose was named the state floral emblem. The name "Cherokee Rose" is a local designation derived from the Cherokee Indians who widely distributed the plant. The rose is excessively thorny and generously supplied with leaves of a vivid green. In color, it is waxy white with a large golden center. Blooming time is in the early spring, but favorable conditions will produce, in the fall of the year, a second flowering of this hardy plant.

Tom · « **Reply #27 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:44:57 pm »

Riles is real close, DanG.

Here's some deep thoughts.

There is a Rock Rose but I've never heard of an Iraquois Rose. I'll bet we could come up with an Iraqi Rose though. Are they Indian?

DanG · « **Reply #28 on:** March 29, 2005, 11:38:51 pm »

Riles nailed that one, with just a little help from the peenut gallery.

Here's the next one. Keep in mind that these leaves are just beginning to open up, so they don't look quite like what you'd probably find in a book. Good chance it'll take a Southern country boy(or girl) to get this one without further hints.

asy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 30, 2005, 02:21:35 am »

Oi!

Don't I get some points???

I said Rose last page. Fair enough I didn't get WHICH rose, coz I've never seen that particular type before, not being from the USofA...

No idea what this next one is though, so someone pick it fast so we can get onto the next one, this is fun!

asy

Roxie · « **Reply #30 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:29:34 am »

Mint

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:48:30 am »

I wasn't even close on the last one, didn't see the thorns neither

Riles · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2005, 09:01:52 am »

Hickory or Ash IF it's a tree.

What surprises me on the last one is the flowers are pretty much identical for the cherokee rose, the loblolly bay and the virginia stewartia (which aren't even native this far south). Must be something advantageous to that design.

DanG · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2005, 09:12:35 am »

Nope, not a mint.

Not an ash or hickory, neither, but it is a tree. This tree is known to "host" other trees, too. One of mine had a little holly tree growing on top of one of its branches, till a windstorm knocked that branch off.

Roxie · « **Reply #34 on:** March 30, 2005, 09:18:53 am »

DanG this is fun!

Bro. Noble · « **Reply #35 on:** March 30, 2005, 10:02:48 am »

Does it have bugs?

Roxie, Your mint guess reminded me of something that might be useful to others--------mints have square stems, sedges have triangular stems

Helps narrow down plants sometimes.

Riles · « **Reply #36 on:** March 30, 2005, 02:09:56 pm »

Boxelder.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #37 on:** March 30, 2005, 03:31:08 pm »

I was thinking boxelder also, but the leave margins didn't seem right. Yet it's the only one that is close. When Dang said the branch that supported a vine got knocked off it makes me think boxelder even more because it doesn't seem to tak emuch to break their branches off. You can grab a branch and break off quite a bunch of bows from those things.

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virginia stewartia (which aren't even native this far south)

But, they grow native in northwest Florida though. There's lot's of stuff down there non-native. Right Dang?

Riles · « **Reply #38 on:** March 30, 2005, 06:08:28 pm »

Yeah, as I check the references, I see that Stewartia will grow natively in the Panhandle, although I can't say I remember seeing any. I think you can get a lot of things to grow here if you try hard enough (except in my yard).

DanG · « **Reply #39 on:** March 30, 2005, 09:38:11 pm »

What the heck is "Stewartia"? I never heard of it. This guy I'm talkin' about is a member of the Mahogany family. I think it is the only one in N. America. I think those leaves have developed a bit in the last couple of days. If y'all don't get it by tomorrow, I'll snap a new one.

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