A Purple Flower Test

Are y'all wanting clues on the remainder?

Here's the updated key - you've only got 4 left! I grant that 17 and 20 are toughies, but the other two are more common.

 

20= dogwood????//very wild guess

 

i've been busy this week and haven't had time to surf. i'll be back at it over the weekend though!!

i'm not ready for any clues other than what you've already given. not yet, anyhoo!!

 

Nope, 20 is not dogwood.

 

Looks a bit like the leaves turning red [dog wood]. Saw a beauty today. Good luck Jocyln will watch with interest :) this is just tooooo complicated. Great stumping work Lorax.

 

Thanks - I did say at the outset that I didn't expect anybody to get #20 - it's one sepal of a much larger flower.

I don't think we even have dogwood down here....

 

the fact that you expect 20 to not get id'd is what will spur me on to prove you wrong ;) lol (i like a good challange).

i did locate 17 - was focusing on another item though and left that window open while i finished up and then ended up closing the window out by accident...

 

Don't you hate it when that happens? It's why I lurve tabbed browsing. But then again, I have a Mac.

 

I can't remember what has been guessed for 18, but is it in the family Lamiaceae?

 

Nope. It's from an even bigger family than the mints.

 

I think 18 is Fabaceae... (17, 18 look a bit familiar, but I don't know... grrrrr... :(((
19. some orchid... :(
20. Amazing... not familiar... but I'm guessing: Malvaceae?

 

18 is indeedy a member of the legumes,
19 is also indeedy an orchid,
20 is not Malvaceae. It's from a bigger family than that.

 

LORAAAX!!! I go crazy... I want to see the whole pics immediately!!! :)))

 

Ye Olde Hint Tyme

I'll placate you a bit, Lila, and give you slightly whole-er pics for #17, #18, and #19. It should make IDing #17 easier, but if you can't figure out #18 (so common here!) with its leaves attached, then shame on you.

I'll also grant that #19 and #20 belong to the same family, but I'm not showing you any more of #20 until you've got the other three...

And congratulations, all who are playing - this is the longest-running stumper in the history of the stumpers!

 

Oh! Thanks!!! :) Beautiful pics... but I'm still in trouble... :(((
17. Dichorisandra thyrsiflora?
18. haha... "so common there"... pfff... I have to buy an air ticket... :) Dalea azurea?

 

17 - YUP. I was only looking for the family (Commelinaceae), but that's the genus and species as well. Extra super purple points to Lila!

Blue Ginger, for those of you keeping track. That one was tougher that normal, since the raceme was well advanced and had started to produce berries. Really tasty root, though.

18 - close enough: it's actually Dalea coerulea. D. azurea is restricted to South Africa, while I can't seem to get all of the D. coerulea out of my lawn.... silly stuff is almost as bad as milkvetch in Canada.

2 plants down, 2 orchids to go! Here's the updated key - once somebody pegs the genus for #19 I will give you a larger picture of the flower from #20.

 

OK, of course I know the last two orchids... but I don't want to tell you the names, because I think you need this ID to a school project!!! :)))

 

dangit, you caught me.... please don't eat me!

 

well, ya might as well give the id's for the last two...

would be a real shame to have the school project left incomplete!!

 

pweeeese?

 

I'm probably way wrong, but I'll give it a shot....#19 Epidendrum ibaguense?

 

Shoot, tropical, I was only looking for Genus. It is (I believe) an Epi, but I don't actually know the species, point of fact. So, purple points to you!

(ps I've checked on E. ibaguense, and this doesn't appear to be it.)

Here's the key to date, you lucky purple fans!

Here, also, is the full flower for #20 - congrats, plant fans.

 

Hm... some Encyclia sp. ? E. cordigera?

 

DING DING DING! It's Encyclia for sure.

Although I'm not so certain about it being E. cordigera, since the colour's all wonky. Might be a hybrid. To me it looks more like E. hanburyi. Since I embarked on the whole shmoo wanting only the Genus for #20, Purple Points to You!!!!

A big hearty congratulations to all of you who played!!!!

If there are any of the flowers that you'd like to see in full, then please mention it to me, I'll be glad to oblige you. Thanks for making this the longest-running stumper on the boards.

I'll be back to stump again in honour of my 1000th post.

 

i never did find time over the weekend to work on these...i'm SO glad the last few were id'd though!!

this was a LOT of fun, thanks for posting it, lorax!!!