Saturday, January 28, 2012

Mystery plant

UNIDENTIFIED PLANT, CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN, GLENCOE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 27, 2012

Pentax K-5
Tamron SP AF 90mm f2.8 DI Macro
1/60 sec. f8
ISO 1600

One of the minor frustrations about visiting the Chicago Botanic Garden is identifying what you're seeing from the welter of identification tags stuck in the ground around the plants, some of them hidden by foliage. If you know what this is, please let me know. For now I'm calling it "Bunched-Up Cotton Swabs," or "Pussycat Toes." [Later: I think this might be Whitfieldia elongata "White Candles," a shrub in the acanthus family, but I'm not absolutely certain.]

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