Author Topic: Testing my descriptive ability (Read 4983 times)

duh · « **on:** Jul 18, 2008, 02:27:50 PM »

ok here goes:

Rising from a central stock are leaves that are set two one on each side of the stem at the same point. The leaves are long ovals with smooth edges and a mid green in color. the plant gets to about 2 1/2 feet tall. The flowers have several rows of petals with a cone shaped center that becomes the seed head after the petals have died away. It comes in all colors except blue and black. It blooms all summer until fall.

Patty S · « **Reply #1 on:** Jul 18, 2008, 04:50:06 PM »

Good start so far.

How many blossoms & where, on the stalk, do they appear? (At the top of the stalk, or at the leaf bract.) Do you know anything else about the plant... such as, is it a full sun or shade lover; does a single stock constitute the whole plant, or is there more than one "branch"?

Right now, bells are ringing for several flowering plants that fit your description. I ran into a cool web site once that identifies plants from a checklist, but wouldn't you know that I have no idea where it was!

Dianna · « **Reply #2 on:** Jul 18, 2008, 07:29:54 PM »

My first thought was that it could be an orchid, until I started googling. I didn't find any that had the petals like you were describing, so I gave up on that thought.

Next I thought of coneflowers, but could never find a picture to show me their stems and leaves. Seems like all the pictures I could find just wanted to show the blooms...

I haven't given up yet, though...

Hmmmmm. Might it be a zinnia?

Gotta go check out my zinnias to see if they fit the description you have given....

duh · « **Reply #3 on:** Jul 20, 2008, 06:56:24 AM »

you did it Dianna. Did I choose one that was too easy?

Dianna · « **Reply #4 on:** Jul 21, 2008, 07:07:16 AM »

I don't think it was too very easy, Tammy. It took me a few minutes to think of zinnias, and I wasn't sure until you said that I was right...

Would you like to describe another?

I am enjoying this little exercise...

duh · « **Reply #5 on:** Jul 23, 2008, 10:30:04 AM »

I have one I can describe.

It is a very dark purple almost black leaved plant with heavily scalloped edges on the leaves. The flowers are nondiscript and a light pink in color that grow from the main stem 4 at a time each facing in a different direction. This continues until the top of the stems have tall flower spikes. The plant grows in bush form and has a very pungent odor. I'll have to run outside and look at it again to see how the leaves attach to the stems. I don't remember that right off. The leaves attact two together at each point on the stem each opposite the other. And it is an annual.

Dianna · « **Reply #6 on:** Jul 24, 2008, 08:32:35 AM »

Hmmmm.

Would it be a type of coleus?

duh · « **Reply #7 on:** Jul 27, 2008, 04:24:01 AM »

That is a very good guess but not correct. The leaves are one solid color that is a very, very deep purple and it has a Very Pungent Odor.

Dianna · « **Reply #8 on:** Jul 28, 2008, 06:55:18 AM »

I haven't given up yet. It may take me awhile to google this answer up, though...

Triss · « **Reply #9 on:** Jul 28, 2008, 11:43:25 AM »

purple basil?

Bonnie · « **Reply #10 on:** Jul 28, 2008, 07:48:47 PM »

Purple basil would be my guess too.

Dianna · « **Reply #11 on:** Aug 05, 2008, 04:08:45 PM »

Tammy, did Triss or Aunt Bonnie get the answer?

duh · « **Reply #12 on:** Aug 06, 2008, 05:57:40 AM »

yes they did. Way To Go Ladies.

Dianna · « **Reply #13 on:** Aug 06, 2008, 06:26:38 AM »

Got another challenge for us?

duh · « **Reply #14 on:** Aug 07, 2008, 04:50:33 AM »

Lets see I'm not sure that I can pull this one off but I will try.

The flowers are light purple and globe shaped made up of many many individual bell shaped blossoms. It makes a seed head rather than a seed pod. It blooms in spring. The leaves come up from the ground rather than a central stem and are long and thin like grass. The leaves are edible.

Dianna · « **Reply #15 on:** Aug 13, 2008, 10:31:41 PM »

A purple cleome? That's just a guess. I am still trying to figure it out...

duh · « **Reply #16 on:** Aug 14, 2008, 07:17:42 AM »

The leaves come up from the ground rather than on a central stem like on a cleome. And it makes a seed head rather than the pods that a cleome make. But nice try. Think edibles.

Bonnie · « **Reply #17 on:** Aug 14, 2008, 03:31:38 PM »

chives?

barleychown · « **Reply #18 on:** Aug 14, 2008, 08:37:30 PM »

Chives would be my guess, as well.

duh · « **Reply #19 on:** Aug 15, 2008, 09:12:38 AM »

yes chives. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to describe it well enough to narrow it down. I'm so glad you all got it. I'll have to think really hard to come up with a good one for you all. I'll be working on it.

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