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Last week it was a mystery plant, but today I finally found the identification sign for this spectacular deep velvety purple bloom in the Botanic Garden's semiarid greenhouse. Sometimes called the poppy anemone, it is a perennial, a member of the buttercup family, and it blooms in many different colors.
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Is it a pretty little violet?
I know the Botanic Garden has a library with a librarian on staff - if you send them a picture I'm sure they can identify it...
That's a good idea. I'll see if I can get the Garden to identify the bloom. It's not a violet, though -- too big, golf-ball-sized.
Finally the gardeners got around to sticking the identification tag into the spot where this plant blooms.
I think that's one of the prettiest flowers I've seen! If the Hearing Loss Assn. ever has their national convention in Chicago, will you and your wife show me around? I got to go to the Museum of Science and Industry when I visited friends when I was 11 years old, and Amtrak had to put a friend and me up for 2 nights in 2004, but that's it. Those gardens must be HUGE!
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