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Subject: [Leica] PAW 8 - early Friday Flower - and botanical help needed
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu Mar 22 16:13:56 2007
References: <4602DFA8.1090405@summaventures.com> <460302D6.9070402@gmx.de> <460311C9.7030201@summaventures.com>

BEAUTIFUL tulip!

This works in black and white even for me;^)

Ric


On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote:

> Douglas,
>
> MY mistake it WAS a tulip...I will correct title...in any case I  
> have not seen anything like it, nor found anything like it on the web.
>
> Apologies, LUG,
>
> Peter
>
> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>> Well Peter,
>> I've been through all the gardening books and catalogues I have,  
>> and dozens of sources for daffodils, jonquils and narcissi and  
>> there's nothing like it as far as I can see.
>> To be quite honest I could swear it was a (parrot?) tulip of some  
>> kind - even the leaves don't look narrow enough for a daff.
>> Nice picture though.
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>> Peter Dzwig wrote:
>>> Dear LUG,
>>>
>>> your botanical advice is sought!! This gorgeous flower was on  
>>> sale in a local supermarket. It IS a daffodil, but what kind? I  
>>> have never seen the like of it before, but almost certainly some  
>>> LUGer knows what it is. :-)
>>>
>>> I suspect that it is a kind of "Parrot". The whole bunch was the  
>>> same pure white colour and all exhibited the same shape and  
>>> delicate rim to the petals. All were of "regular" size; it wasn't  
>>> a miniature
>>>
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PAW+2007/ 
>>> ParrotDaffodill20070503-2.jpg.html>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PAW+2007/ 
>>> ParrotDaffodill20070503-2.jpg.html
>>>
>>> What is it?
>>>
>>> Leica IIIf 9cm CV Apo-Lanthar Kodak BW400CN
>>>
>>> thanks for looking - and for your advice
>>>
>>> Peter Dzwig
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] PAW 8 - early Friday Flower - and botanical help needed)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] PAW 8 - early Friday Flower - and botanical help needed)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] PAW 8 - early Friday Flower - and botanical help needed)