blue bottlebrush? http://thefragguys.com/img/Surbpurpleacro.jpg
At 05:40 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
>Not it, but thanks. These flowers spiral bunch in the manner of a,
>haha, toilet brush. (from wide diameter at base of many close
>together flowers, to one at the top.
>
> Stephen
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: There is a candelabra flower.
>http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/brunswigorient.htm. Failing that,
>scan in a photo of the offending plant and maybe we can do a group
>hunt (and even find some derelict easter eggs).
>
>It occurred to me the other day that agribusiness has missed a bet by
>not marketing its eggs painted this time of year. Me, I prefer bunny
>stew for easter.
>
>Mark
>
>
>At 05:14 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
> >I've got a poem going that, currently, suffers from 'nominal fallacy'!
> > I don't know if 'nominal fallacy' was on that original list with
> > 'pathetic fallacy' and all the others. But I have been wrong twice
> > so far on getting the name right on this plant/flower combination
> > and I don't want to risk further embarrassment.
> > First I put 'lavender blue' pedals on a bottle-brush plant. Only
> > to find it was not a bottle-brush because it was pointed out that
> > such plants only have 'red spiky flowers'.
> > Second time through I put 'lilac blue' flowers a ceanothus plant.
> > Which is accurate to such a plant, but it was not the plant. Thank
> > you, Google, for the correcting image!.
> > This morning I found the plant with other such plants - some had
> > raspberry and others had deep blue petals (on vertical 6 to 12 inch
> > spiral, flowering 'branches '.) I asked a passerby. Ten minutes
> > later she came back in her car. "My husband says it called a
> > 'Candle of Madera' ." Indeed the multiple flowering plant looked
> > like an inverted candelabra.
> > However, nowhere to be found on Google!
> > I and my poor, nominally compromised poem will appreciate an
> > accurate report from a knowledgeable green thumb - if there is one
> > on the premises?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and, as a reward, I will be happy to send a
> > copy of the repaired poem, even post the corrected version on my
> > blog. I would post a jpeg of the culprit on my blog, but the
> > worn-out camera went in for much need repair.
> >
> > Honestly, perhaps like Spicer, I am trying real hard to put the
> > real flower in a real poem!
> >
> > Stephen V
> > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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