Not easy...

Yes, this is really a plant shadow... Species, or at least genus ID please!!! :)

(Quiz-Photo: András Mészáros)

 

Cleistocactus in the afternoon?

BrianO

 

No... :) (It's a native species here!)

 

Verbascum?

 

An itinerant saguaro.

 

No, smaller... and these shadows are it's leaves... :)

 

Nooo! :) This shadow is a native and protected species here! (+ the whole genus is protected, all 3 species!)

 

Struggling to get any sort of scale on this pic! Galanthus praps?

 

Lila, a truly excellent stumper!

Going from one extreme to the other....

Cleistocactus ----> Drosera anglica !!

I still see the shadow of fuzzy hairs along the edges...perhaps it is my ageing eyes!

Ciao
BrianO

 

Euphorbia.

 

No, not a bulbous plant... and this "shadow" grows in sunny and very dry places... not in forests... :)

 

Fuzzy hair OK, but not Drosera... (this "shadow" likes DRY places!) But good idea, looks really a bit similar!

(Unfortunately we have just Drosera rotundifolia here, D. anglica is an extinct species here since 1950. ... :(

 

No... Euphorbia isn't a protected genus here, and we have more than 20 Euphorbia species, not only 3 ... :)

 

Third guess....

A plant I have never seen, with a basal rosette of very hairy leaves, growing in rocky places....Onosma visianii ?

Ciao
BrianO

 

WOW, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! :)

It's really an Onosma visianii! Hm... looks like this "Not easy" stumper was a "Too easy" stumper for you!!! :)))

(The other 2 species here are: O. arenaria, and O. tornensis, but O. visianii is the "prickliest"...)

 

Lila,

Fantastic looking plant, the genus Onosma does not make it this far west to Portugal.

Thanks for the challenge.
It was just a lucky guess on my part as you can see from my previous two suggestions!

Ciao
Briano

 

bjo---you rule!