Hello Folks! Flowers not only decorate our meadows, our woodlands, our roadsides with splashes of colour, but they also provide food and shelter for a whole host of insects. We have only to look at UK flowers to appreciate their beauty, their scent, their diversity.Each Monday for 12 weeks I will be posting a little teaser for you. Without looking in books or on the internet (i.e - no cheating), see if you can identify the UK flower. On Wednesday, so as long as no-one has guessed it, I will post one clue. On Friday I will post the answer along with some additional information for your interest.Keep a note of each species, as I will be asking which is the odd one out at the end of the quiz.MYSTERY FLOWER QUIZ#11As a plant, I'm a real slippery customer.
I think you may have had another brainwave, Seaman. Very good call.
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Tony
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Unknown said: I think you may have had another brainwave, Seaman. Very good call.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Clue: As a wreck.
@Barnsley lad - there is an odd one out.
Germain could well be right with Eelgrass as eels are found in wrecks.
and could be the odd one out.
Ray
a good laugh is better than a tonic
As a wreck - sea wrack? Another name for eelgrass apparently (I have to admit now to cheating here to see if sea wrack and eelgrass were one and the same!)
"All weeds are flowers, once you get to know them" (Eeyore)
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I'd worked out the anagram but couldn't relate it to anything. I always thought that sea wrack was that brown seaweed with bladders that gets washed up on the shore. I didn't know it was also called eelgrass. You learn something new every day.
Unknown said:I always thought that sea wrack was that brown seaweed with bladders that gets washed up on the shore.
Think that's bladderwrack TJ, or at least, that's what I call it! ;-)
Oh-eh... its starting to sound like something you might want to speak to a gynaecologist about :)
Note to self, do not read Mrs T's response when you have just taken a large swig of coffee, I nearly killed the laptop.
MarJus is right the brown seaweed TJ is talking about is bladderwrack. Eelgrass is a marine grass and is of global importance, we have beds of it here that are protected because they act as nurseries for fish and shell fish - I have been lucky enough to see tiny seahorses on blades of eel grass.
Caroline in Jersey
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Ooops, sorry Caroline! my bad.