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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