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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 21, 2018 20:33:48 GMT -5
I have no clue what this is. It was found by my Uncle when he was out on his daily walk last year. He showed it to my wife and I and we were intrigued. After the flower died, we did some digging in the dirt and found 20 or so bulbs and we transplanted them in several places so hopefully this year we will have some "new to us" flowers growing here. It's a pretty orangish flower. anyone have a clue?
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 21, 2018 21:19:02 GMT -5
Looks like a crocus to me.
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Post by Gianna on Jan 21, 2018 21:21:56 GMT -5
Not much to go on.. but it could be salsify. But I'm not betting the farm on that ID - leaves don't look quite right. Or it more likely could be some sort of lily.
Is your photo from a cultivated location?
EDIT: just re-read you text Moosie. With an orange flower, definitely not salsify. Brownrexx is probably right. Crocus is a lily, and the images for leaves fit better.
Salsify :
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 21, 2018 21:50:59 GMT -5
brownrexx, Gianna, Thanks. Wife googled it and says she's not certain, but it could be crocus. When it blooms, I'll update thread. I'm just wondering how it could have gotten here on the farm. Always a mystery around here.
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Post by Ö®≡Gö∩RΣÐ on Jan 23, 2018 13:19:18 GMT -5
that's one thing I look forward to with internet search options. the ability to put in a pic and ask: what's this?
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Post by bestofour on Jan 23, 2018 15:30:42 GMT -5
Birds flying around can do amazing things.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 23, 2018 15:58:53 GMT -5
Birds flying around can do amazing things. Yes bulbs will eventually grow from seeds but it takes 6-7 years for them to reach flowering size.
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Post by ahntjudy on Jan 23, 2018 16:50:24 GMT -5
Squirrels are good at relocating bulbs, especially crocus, around here...
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Post by spike on Jan 23, 2018 16:58:31 GMT -5
Look like this?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 23, 2018 17:17:18 GMT -5
Wife says no. It's was round, baseball sized.
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Post by stone on Jan 23, 2018 18:02:01 GMT -5
What was round, baseball sized? The bloom? The bulb?
What the foliage looks like to me... Lycoris.
Might help to have something next to the foliage to give some indication of size... also... what the temps have been at your house... If it's been as cold as at my house... doesn't seem like the warm weather bulbs would have any foliage left after the freeze.
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Post by aqua on Jan 23, 2018 18:10:05 GMT -5
Well... we know it's not bacon....
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jan 23, 2018 18:19:51 GMT -5
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 23, 2018 20:31:23 GMT -5
ladymarmalade, Wife says no. She has been looking at pictures on internet and hasn't found it yet.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Sept 20, 2018 18:49:07 GMT -5
Lo and Behold, it blooms again. Now does anyone know? This time it's pink. Go figure.
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Post by carolyn on Sept 20, 2018 19:48:21 GMT -5
they are called naked lilies. the foliage comes up and then dies back. the flower appears once the foliage is gone.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 20, 2018 20:40:18 GMT -5
I think it's a type of naked lily called a Spider Lily
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Sept 21, 2018 6:07:18 GMT -5
Thanks carolyn, brownrexx, This has been a complete mystery for me. We have flowers that pop up here all the time and I was just wondering. They are rather pretty. I don't know how it got here originally, but I know it produces bulbs cause me and wife transplanted the ones you see there from that first original flower.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 21, 2018 7:20:49 GMT -5
hairymooseknuckles, I have the kind of naked lily with the trumpet shaped pink flowers. The leaves come up and just look like green plants for several months then they die off and in a few weeks the flowers pop up and they have no leaves, just stems coming out of the ground. Your's are really pretty and if they are like mine, they will make lots of new bulbs.
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Post by carolyn on Sept 21, 2018 7:42:53 GMT -5
I should also have said... yes, they are pretty. I just answered your question. I have never seen them that bright of pink. usually a very subdued pink around here.
Don't confuse them with spider flowers though. that is Cleome.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 21, 2018 7:53:51 GMT -5
I have never seen them that bright of pink I have never seen that color before either. It is really vibrant.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 21, 2018 10:50:36 GMT -5
I am impressed by that color, too. The ones I have seen are a very pale pink. If that color returns and you can multiply the plant that makes it, I bet a lot of your garden friends would like bulbs...or you could sell them.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Sept 21, 2018 13:41:02 GMT -5
I am impressed by that color, too. The ones I have seen are a very pale pink. If that color returns and you can multiply the plant that makes it, I bet a lot of your garden friends would like bulbs...or you could sell them. Laura, Last year it was orange. Wife and I dug the bulbs and put them over by the Plum tree so they wouldn't get mowed down. We set out a bunch, but only 2 flowers so far. I'd hate to say what color will come up next year. We don't even know where the original flower came from. No one here planted it. I'd happily send you some though once it's died back.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Sept 23, 2018 23:42:42 GMT -5
brownrexx, carolynOk you two are way more knowledgeable than I in flower identification. Can you tell me what this might be? They are everywhere this year. Down by the pond, in the field, in the woods and even in my front yard. They are so very pretty!
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Post by carolyn on Sept 24, 2018 7:04:01 GMT -5
not familiar with it at all. we must not have it up here, maybe someone else knows more....but give us some more information about it... it is a perennial or annual? when does it bloom? how large of a plant? what type of growth? creeping rhizomes, individual plants, self seeding? woody or vegatative if perennial? i tried to do a wildflower ID site but I couldn't find anything similar. is it a wildflower?
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Sept 24, 2018 8:49:07 GMT -5
carolyn, This is the first time I've seen them. They just started popping up all around the property. Some type of wild flower I believe. It's been blooming since that last huge rain we had about a month ago. They crawl along the ground in patches and clumps. I've had purple flowers before at the edge of my plowed field, but these are different.
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