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Name the Bug # 13

By Christopher Taylor at 2/25/2010 03:39:00 pm
Been a while since we last had one of these. Anyone care to identify this beastie?



Okay, it's a shrub, not a beastie, but you get the idea. Attribution to follow.

Update: Identity available here. Photo by Josiah.

6 comments:

  1. Pat25 February 2010 at 22:53

    Fouquieria (Idria) columnaris of the Fouquieriaceae? The Boojum Tree (from Lewis Carrol) or Cirio (Spanish = candle).

    If that is right then I got it from the bent top.

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  2. Pat25 February 2010 at 23:00

    Oleg Polunin defined a tree as a woody plant over 2 metres, a shrub being a woody plant under 2 metres. For the purposes of his Trees and Shrubs of... series, I think he knew the usual overlapping meanings. I think that counted even for living telegraph poles.

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  3. Christopher Taylor26 February 2010 at 01:52

    I know, I just like the sound of the word "shrub".

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  4. Berg26 February 2010 at 02:31

    alluaudia montagnacii from madagascar?

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  5. Pat26 February 2010 at 03:10

    I thought it was Didieriaceae at first but look at the cactus at the bottom left, so Californian it has probably got an agent.

    Lovely word, shrub. You know shrub is a style of alcoholic cordial? From the same Arabic root as sherbert and syrup.

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  6. SteveED26 February 2010 at 10:33

    It looks like a mesquite plant that has a hoop-snake nest in it.

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