Re: What is this flower????
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- Subject: Re: What is this flower????
- From: D* M* <d*@post.its.mcw.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:36:18 -0600
>I am hoping you folks can help me. Everyday going to work I drive a farmers
>field. In amongst the cabbages, pumpkins he has flowers growing. There is
>one I do not know the name of, in spite of all my efforts and it is driving me
>bonkers.
>
>It is a tall plant about 3-4 feet high and is blooming now. It is a deep red
>and from a distance looks like a humungus cockscomb, kind of brainy looking
>:~).
>Yesterday on "A Gardeners Journal" there were these two elderly ladies on by
>the name of Grace (called the two Grace's) anyway, low and behold there is the
>flower that has been haunting me, when the name was about to be said, my
>husband asked me a question..ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Missed it. One of the Graces
>said it needs to be staked, but can't tell that from the farmers field. Can
>anyone tell me what this flower is and is it a perennial or annual. Thanks a
>bunch!!!!
>
I watched the same episode, and what you saw were several varieties of
cockscomb, or Celosia cristata. They are an annual plant that come in a
variety of colors, usually yellow or red and a variety of forms from
cockscomb like, to brain-like, or just kind of feathery, rather like an
amaranth, to which it is related.
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d*@post.its.mcw.edu
"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
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