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Another unknown plant... aaaargh - I need the book from apachenf ^Pro 239 days old

I went for a stroll just a couple of streets and immediately came across another unknown plant - a shrub up to 10ft or so tall. What caught my attention ...

Mystery plants from Libya 1 from apachenf ^Pro 240 days old

There's two plants - 'weeds' I guess - that I have just come across which I have no idea what they are.The first has leaves like a geranium or like lady's ...

ragwort - the set? from apachenf ^Pro 241 days old

Well we've had groundsel out there in Libya, we've had chamomile/mayweed out here and this almost completes the set. It is ragwort above - another ...

Libyan slender thistle from apachenf ^Pro 249 days old

Back in Tripoli I saw this beautiful looking thistle. The flowers aren't big, maybe 1 or 1.5 cm in diameter but the colours were lovely - a pinky purple ...

Naming of the parts from apachenf ^Pro 276 days old

I managed to get a better scan of the mayweed flower head today (yesterday's topic) which shows it's hemisphericity - is that a real wrd - but the high ...

Lemon blossom in Libya from apachenf ^Pro 280 days old

[ ... ] that the scanner photos are pretty pathetic for any 3D onbjects like flowers - or rather that this HP scanner is pretty pathetis. I have seen ...

While we are talking about numbers... from apachenf ^Pro 301 days old

I am one of many people who find maps fascinating better than the real thing? Maybe. Anywho clustermaps is that wee application on the mid right of ...

sow thistle from apachenf ^Pro 302 days old

Here's the second familiar weed from the garden at the office here in Tripoli - a sow thistle (genus Sonchus). Not a whole lot to say about sow thistles ...

Libyan common groundsel from apachenf ^Pro 303 days old

It's raining for a few minutes every two or three days here in Tripoli. One of the plants that is doing well is one of our old friends from the UK - ...

Scanner - daffodils from Tipperty from apachenf ^Pro 324 days old

Soon be spring - thank god - gets dark around 3:30 to 4 in the afternoon at the moment because of the awful overcast weather - freezing rain at the moment ...