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Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 20:21
| These beauties are blooming all over town and I have admired a strand for some time. This plant gets tall as you can see, growing taller than adjacent homes.
Darren |
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| Common name is Mexican Sunflower. |
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| It's tithonia diversifolia. Common names are Mexican sunflower (as trini1 suggested) or tree marigold. |
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- Posted by RetiredFlorida 9 (floridabeachportraits@gmail.com) on Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 21:03
| Thank you trini1 and juneroses. While you're here, I saw this blooming on the roadside in West Tampa the other day and I've never seen anything quite like this. Darren |
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| It is a ginger. There are many that start off looking like this. Easy to grow. :o) |
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- Posted by RetiredFlorida 9 (floridabeachportraits@gmail.com) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 8:21
| Thanks Katkin, I had no idea there were so many types of ginger. Heck, I even found out that a beautiful little plant I have by my entryway is a ginger, Siam Tulip. The one in the picture looks like a pine cone ginger. Darren |
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- Posted by carolb_w_fl 9/10 coastal (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 10:22
| I have something called 'Spiral ginger' that looks exactly like the 2nd pic - it's incredibly vigorous & rather tall. If you leave a piece of the stalk laying on the ground, it seems to sprout in no time. |
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- Posted by RetiredFlorida 9 (floridabeachportraits@gmail.com) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 20:05
| Thanks Carolb. Good to know, I may have to go back and get a piece, it was growing roadside in a wooded area, perhaps a little wet. Hope it is blooming when I go back to see it. Darren |
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