A nice blue flower of some sort...

neilvan · Aug 19, 2009

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Silver surfer · Aug 19, 2009

It is a Scabious and is a really superb pic. Thank you .

The Hollyberry Lady · Aug 19, 2009

Wow - that is lovely!

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Scabiosa (pronounced /skeɪbiˈoʊsə/)[1] is a genus in the teasel Family Dipsacaceae of flowering plants. Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious; however some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in related genera such as Knautia and Succisa; at least some of these were formerly placed in Scabiosa. Another common name for members of this genus is pincushion flowers.

Members of this genus are native to Europe and Asia. Some species of Scabiosa, notably small scabious (S. columbaria) and Mediterranean sweet scabious (S. atropurpurea) have been developed into cultivars for gardeners.

Scabiosa plants have many small flowers of soft lavender blue, lilac or creamy white colour borne in a single head on a tall stalk. Scabious flowers are nectar rich and attract a variety of insects including Lepidoptera such as the Six-spot Burnet moth. Scabiosa species are also used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Grey Pug.

In 1782, a mysterious pale yellow scabious, called Scabiosa trenta, was described by Belsazar Hacquet, an Austrian physician, botanist, and mountaineer, in his work Plantae alpinae Carniolicae. It became a great source of inspiration for later botanists and mountaineers discovering the Julian Alps, especially Julius Kugy. The Austrian botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun later proved Belsazar Hacquet had not found a new species, but a specimen of the already known submediterranean Cephalaria leucantha

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PennyG · Aug 20, 2009

Thats so pretty and so dainty looking.

Katalina25 · Aug 20, 2009

I'm sure you can get them in a chocolate color

Silver surfer · Aug 20, 2009

Katalina were you maybe thinking of Cosmos atrosanguinea. Common name Chocolate Cosmos.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=...osmos atrosanguinea&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Mudar · Jan 16, 2010

i love it
good shoot

Katalina25 · Jan 16, 2010

No S.S i meant Chocolate Scabious,

I just sent a seed to Lorax I think lol

http://www.paghat.com/scabiosaatropurpurea.html

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