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[42itous]

what's this?

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[nurrynur.livejournal.com]

Definitely a plant of some sort. :P

I don't know, but it looks really cool! Where did you find it?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

pfththhpthhh!

In Cambridge, on a side street near the main library.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I saw it in an episode of Star Trek.

(It was the one where Spock got some nookie, so I see good things in your future.)

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Obviously photoshopped. See the checked pattern?

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Google for the win!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria

[majordomo.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, 42itous did *not* actually say "pfththhpthhh!" at the screen while typing her riposte. I was disappointed.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

What the heck was your search string??

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

I image searched "tulip like flower". There is a picture there that looks like 42itous' picture so I followed that to a page that had someone asking what kind of flower it was. Luckily, someone on that page knew what it was.

If that didn't work, I was going to hit up one of the Landscape Architects in the office. :-)

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, smart-ass minds think alike.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

::disarming smile::

[coraline]

i don't know, but i love the checkerboard petals!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did try a quick search for "gingham flower," with results you can probably guess at. Didn't think of "checkerboard flower" until just now, but that wouldn't have helped either.

Now I can see about getting a Fritillaria for my garden...

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

(Was just looking at spoons.)

These come in a bunch of different colors, too. We have both purple and white ones at my family's house in PA. I don't think I've ever seen one up here!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

The garden where I took this photo had white ones too. I first noticed these last year in *front* of the visitors' center at Plimoth Plantation (behind the visitors' center, I assume they make an attempt to eschew plantings not representative of the native flora of the early 17th century).

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Is behind it the part with the section on the Wampanoag?

I assume the early settlers brought some plants over with them -- it would be kind of cool to have the gardens there be faithful about that. Like "this seemed like a good idea at the time, and became one of our first invasive species" or whatever.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

No, it's along the path from the parking lot to the modern building where you pay admission.

I think there is a little garden with... maybe plants that the settlers mentioned in their journals? It's a triangular raised bed where several paths meet, next to the crafts center (that's the building where they demonstrate pottery and woodworking and blacksmithing), and it has tags to identify the plants.