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[Closed] Challenge for RedThunder and any other naturalists!

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Clues: chalk downland, first pic in a Beech hangar.

Latin names please!


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:38 pm
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Greenus Sproutius, and Leafus Tinius


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:41 pm
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Close but no cigar, RB! Nice try though... 2 points for inventiveness (is that a word? it is now!)


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:46 pm
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who else was expecting naked people ?


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:48 pm
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who else was expecting naked people ?

Any other numpty who doesn't know the difference between naturalists and naturists or can't spell. Probably no-one, then.


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:50 pm
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LOL! Just you, Barnes, you perv!


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:54 pm
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Any other numpty who doesn't know the difference between naturalists and naturists

I'm still confused. Can someone please get their kit off ?


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:57 pm
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*slips out of something less comfortable*


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:58 pm
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nakedness [b]IS[/b] natural FFS, you're just being picky:-(


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 7:59 pm
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argh ****in ****ity ****, I know this hang on let me think


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 8:23 pm
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second one looks like Plantago media with some Lotus corniculatus, cant make out the grass species.


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 8:27 pm
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first one adders tongue?


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 8:29 pm
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Arum maculatum?


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 8:33 pm
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Both are orchids...


 
Posted : 18/04/2009 11:11 pm
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Both are orchids...

Fair enough, I blame the phot's then!!


 
Posted : 19/04/2009 8:50 am
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What's wrong with the photos, Mr Scarlet Pimpernel?

I admit I had to turn the gamma down a bit in the second one, but it should be pretty identifiable.

Agree about plantain, though: I always have to look twice to check whether it's a plantain or orchid leaves.


 
Posted : 19/04/2009 9:46 am
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Green shoots of recovery?


 
Posted : 19/04/2009 11:20 am
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I always have to look twice to check whether it's a plantain or orchid leaves.

yeah, I always think that too...


 
Posted : 19/04/2009 5:55 pm