These flowers were on the grounds of the Lake Chapala Society in Ajijic. I’m guessing they are foxgloves. Does anyone have a different guess?
For more flowers, look HERE.
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Excellent photos.
How do you suppose the name foxglove came to be? How do any of them come to be called what they are, for that matter?
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MG Mason says because the real foxglove looks like a little glove. He doesn’t think these are. Back to Google… I have another idea.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Actually, I don’t see how it does, though.
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Maybe they are a kind of a cousin to Foxgloves? They look very similar to me, but in a bit more luxurious edition
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That’s what I though, but MG Mason says no. I’m going to investigate…
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They could be a cousin, but as foxglove is native to Europe and not North America, they could be a crossbreed. I agree they look a little like them though 🙂
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I never know how to capture foxgloves. Wonderfully done Judy. 😀
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No, they are not foxglove. The plant is very common here in England on the edge of wetlands and waste ground. Though it looks similar, the flowers are a completely different shape and they do not have the speckling.
As you can see, they are called foxgloves because they look a little bit like miniature gloves.
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Oh they do have some speckling I just noticed, but the flower is the wrong shape. This is the time of year they look exactly like the image above.
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Wondering if they are Delphiniums? Nope, not Delphiniums, but I found a variety of Floxglove that looks very much like my pictures. Here it is: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=images+ofdifferent+varieties+of++foxgloves&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
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Ah yes, could be delphiniums!
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But delphiniums have separated petals, and this is just one tubular blossom, like Foxgloves, but ruffled on the end. Also, I can’t see that Foxgloves actually look like gloves, can you?
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Yet foxgloves have flowers on just one “face”. If you look on the pic I have posted, the flowers are on just one side (more obvious on the flowers on the left hand side). Whatever these are, they have multiple faces from which the flowers are fanning out. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a hybrid of both plants – it looks like both, but not quite enough elements of each to come down on one side or another.
Haha, it’s one of those “if you squint and turn your head sideways” moments. The flower is funneled, shaped a bit like a paw so yeah, sort of, kind of… almost 😉
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Well, I guess we’ll let it remain a mystery. My dad was a farmer and when we’d drive in the car he’d always report on what the crops were on either side of the road. He’s long gone, but I still have the habit of wanting to know the name of every plant I pass.
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Do you know what they are? Thanks for replying, by the way!!!
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Delphinium, perhaps, just not fully opened up?
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Oh my such beautiful bunch of flowers ! Stunning !
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Beautifull.. Whatever their name.
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Not only are they beautiful, but you can use them to quietly poison someone. Just in case you need an outlet for your feelings. Or a new profession?
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Now you are starting to sound like someone out of a Hercule or Sherlock story!!!
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I just Googled foxglove and got a nice result. If you Google foxglove you get a link to digitalis and there is a link to images and there are hundreds of images. Most of them are a narrower opening and longer slimmer opening but there seems to be quite a bit of variation in form. Check it out the flower form and variation are stunningly beautiful.
Al
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I’m horrible at flower identification. I really should pay more attention.
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Ok, I just checked Park Seed and they have lots of beautiful varieties if you might be inclined to try planting them. Don’t eat or get too close especially to dried up seedpods can cause poisoning or allergic reactions up to and including death. Park Seed is a great resource. They have a catalogue for hobbyiest and pro’s too. When I went to school learning greenhouse and nursery management I read one of Park’s books called ” Park’s Success with Seed “. Great book if you want to be successful with plants you want to try to grow from seed which is much less expensive than buying plants from a nursery, also fun and excitement!
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So it is a foxglove, Al? I think I have too many animals to plant them, but I had them in my garden in California.
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I grew my zinnias from seeds and they came up beautifully.
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interesting flowers. I have never seen them before. But I like the pretty light violet colour.
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