Friday Foxer #27

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1. a5. Hong Kong orchid
   b3. Poison Ivy

2. A5 is the bauhinia or Hong Kong orchid tree as seen on the HK flag

   • E5 – “My Little Buttercup” from ¡Three Amigos!

     • Ohhh. I thought “Echinacea sombrero tres amigos” was a _little_ obscure.

3. B2. Thistle

   (Back from actual holiday!)

   • I think those flowers have too much middle for thistle. It’s carboprotus edulis (iceplant/hottentot fig)
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpobrotus_edulis#/media/File:Iceplant_flowers.jpg

4. e6. Magnolia?

5. A3 – Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar (I think)

   • You are correct – cinnabar moth caterpillars on Ragwort.

     https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/cinnabar-caterpillars

6. A2 – Edelweiss Air

7. A4 looks suspiciously like Peyote (Lophophora williamsii:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote#/media/File:Lophophora_williamsii_ies.jpg )

8. e3. Foxglove

9. B6 – Bluebell Train

10. d3. Is that a triffid in Piccadilly Circus?

    edit: It is! http://www.roger-russell.com/sffun/triffidbook.jpg

11. D3: Triffids – a cover to Joh Wyndham’s book titled ‘Revolt of the Triffids’ (presumably for the American market)

    (It’s Piccadilly advertising in the background, explaining the strange conjunction of Bovril and Schwepps).

    • Ah, too late on that one!

12. D2 – Monkey puzzle tree Araucaria araucana

13. B1 is what I would call Sticky Willie, but it presumably has a more respectable name…

14. F4: Artemisia Gentileshi – Self-Portrait as a Lute Player (1615–1617)

    The genus Artemisia includes mugwort, wormwood, and sagebrush.

15. D3 – It’s an old pic of Piccadilly Circus, with a statue of a plant in the foreground, doesn’t seem to be Eros?

16. E4 looks like the end of HMS Victory, but I don’t know what’s botanical about her…

    • Mary ROSE building behind, maybe.

17. F6 – Corpse Flower – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/19/corpse-flower-san-francisco-bay-area

18. F5 – Marijuana? (Is it worrying that it’s taken us so long or a good thing?) (Might also be wrong)

19. F1: plain old John NETTLES – from the TV series Bergerac

    B5: Cotton = Vegetable Lamb of Tartary – people couldn’t imagine that it didn’t come from a sheep, and so conceived a woolly sheep / plant hybrid

20. b1 – goose grass

    • Is that what the respectable English call it? 😀

      • Galium aparine, also known as:
        hitchhikers, cleavers, clivers, bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, sticky bob, stickybud, stickyback, sticky molly, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, grip grass, sticky grass, bobby buttons, whippysticks and velcro plant

        • That’s a lot of names for one plant! I like ‘hitchhikers’.

21. B4 is like the thing called Love in the Mist, although I thought it usually had more petals.

    • Usually, but not in this case!
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_damascena#/media/File:2007-10-25Nigella_damascena_10.jpg

22. F3 – Mistel composite aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel

    Mistel = mistletoe

23. E! – the state flag of Nevada (the flowers depicted are sagebrush)

24. I want C3 to be Joseph Banks, but I don’t think it is, although it’s a bit like him…

25. C6: one of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers ? (maybe F454)

    A6: harvesting Crocuses for Saffron

26. A1 – a bird drinking from a Heliconia flower – https://traveltoeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_Sep172019at15149PM-W.jpg

27. F2 is these chimpanzees eating figs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee#/media/File:Adult_female_and_infant_wild_chimpanzees_feeding_on_Ficus_sur.jpeg

28. C5: Continental’s Dandelion rubber cycle tyres “Taraxagum”, use as a source the Russian dandelion or Taraxacum koksaghyz

29. Left to identify:
    C1, C2, C3, C4
    D1, D4, D5, D6
    E2

    E6 has been tentatively identified as Magnolia, but it’s a lot paler on my monitor (unless that’s contrast with the orange background)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(color)
    could be Linen, or boring Floral White?

    • D5: Russian 2S4 Tyulpan (Tulip) – Soviet 240 mm self-propelled heavy mortar

30. d6 – ANGELICA Van Buren, daughter-in law of President Martin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Singleton_Van_Buren

31. C4 – Georgia O’Keeffe, Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills (there seem to be various ways of phrasing the name)
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/georgia-okeeffe-3-things-to-know-1925403

32. E2: DAF Daffodil

33. C1 – the twinflower, Linnaea borealis

    So we’re left with
    C2, C3, D1 and D4

    • D1: Giant RHUBARB sculpture in Wakefield
      More than half the effort was expended on locating the darn thing in Streetview, as it turns out it’s very zoomed in
      https://www.google.com/maps/@53.6698824,-1.5052536,3a,15y,248.34h,92.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRvKrTl24Uh9TwIYeKoeTWg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

      My best guess for D4 is that it’s something to do with the Chinampa, the Mexican “floating gardens” since the Aztec age.

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