unknown flower

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by BodyXScape, Jun 27, 2007.

  1. BodyXScape

    BodyXScape Member

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    Hi there,

    I am really interested in botany but know really nothing of the subject right now and it seems silly (because it looks like a very basic type of flower), but I've been trying to identify a flower growing in my front yard for a little over a year now. I've asked around to everyone I know and no one knows what it is. Can anyone tell me what this is? I'm sure it's probably a pretty popular flower (although I've never seen it before...again I'm new at this!). I'm really not even sure at how to go about identifying flowers...

    Anyway, thanks for humoring me!
     

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    pierrot Active Member 10 Years

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    yay! thank you so much!!

    mel :)
     
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    Interesting point about spelling of this word: Google search of "collarette dahlia" gives a similar number of results to a search of "collerette dahlia". I suspect that collerette was the original version, but was corrupted in the English-speaking world. See this Wikipedia article: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collerette_(costume)
     
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    The wikipedia piece is in French. Collarette would be spelled that way after the English collar, no?
     
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    pierrot Active Member 10 Years

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    Hello Ron & Tony et al

    RHS lists it the class as Collerette while the American Dahlia Society lists it as Collarette

    so I guess it depends on what side of the pond you are on

    from the US Dahlia Soc
    http://www.dahlia.org/guide/form.html

    from the RHS
    http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/publications/registers/dahliaregister13.pdf

    as Shakespeare said
    (well he wrote it (?) and Juliet says it to be pedantic!!)

    O, be some other name!
    What's in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet;
    Romeo and Juliet » Act 2. Scene II
     
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