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    BH, do you have a really great camera? Your photos are beautiful.

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    My camera is a cheap Canon PowerShot A510. 3 Megapixel. 4X optical zoom. But, I've taken some time to learn how to use the close up mode and other manual features. And, I use a great Mac program called Graphic Converter to fix up photos that would otherwise be dull and boring....

    Thanks so much for the kind words!

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    Quote Originally Posted by buad hai View Post
    Aren't those good to eat?

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    That they are!

    (morning Jettie!)

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    When I first decided to do the "growing lotus from seed" project I had to ask Ms. B to tell her family to stop eating the lotus seed pods! The love them. Of course, huge ones are for sale in the market here and last time I was on the bus a young lady had a bunch she was munching on.

    They also use the fresh seeds (not dried) in soups and curries.

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    Ya; they also look fab dried in floral arrangements.

    Quote Originally Posted by kingwilly View Post
    That they are!

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    Asiatic Lillium (a big, red one).





    A frilly hibiscus


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    ^ heeeeh. That's beautiful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Burr
    Asiatic Lillium (a big, red one).
    I have (well, I hope I still have) a mass of these in my house on the NSW north coast. I started with two and within about five years there are (or were) about forty.

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    I just got back from Oz and bought a bunch of bulbs for more Asiatic lillies there. In colours that I haven't seen in Thailand. Hope all six bulbs bloom.

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    ^I have some nice yellow ones and some hot pink, but most are red like the one you posted.

    Do Arum lillies grow well here? I have seen them in florists but not in gardens. You can grow them in water gardens at home and in soil too.

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    No problem. They are very drought resistant. I bought some yellow ones (not seen in Thailand) and some pink, white and pink & white ones.

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    White to Pink

    This nice flower starts out pure white in the morning:



    And slowly turns pink through the day:





    Until the evening when it is quite a dark pink:



    (Sorry for the quality of the last shot. My little camera doesn't focus well in difficult lighting situations....)

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    It's when we get a really good thread like this that I feel so disadvantaged in having such a slow dial up connection!

    T.T.& T Please get your finger out and get Broadband in this area!

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    Buadhai, is that colour-changing flower like hibiscus, only lasts a day? Or, does it last longer?

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    ^Just one day. The flower in my series first bloomed yesterday morning and was shriveled by the late evening. Ready to fall off today.

    The flower looks like a single Hibiscus, but the leaves are not right.

    Any ideas?

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    Can you show the plant leaves, BH? Then you get an idea which family it's from. Hibiscus usually have long stamen, no? And is it fragrant? Lovely whatever she is.

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    Don't think it is Hibiscus. The majority of hibiscus are single flowering and usually flower on a juncture (sp) between the branch and the leaf.It is also only a single bloom whereas in the first picture there appear to be multi bud on the same flower stem. Agree with Jet that Hibiscus for the most part have a long stamen.

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    I took this today. You can see the leaf shape pretty well with a newly opened blossom and some spent ones from yesterday:


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    The flower looks like a peony. Some of them are one day bloomers but I havent heard of any that change colour like that.

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    Knew I had seen a photo of these before, I think it is this



    Took this at Queen Siriikit Botanical Gardens on video and uploaded pic from it. Now to find the video and see if I got the name of it. One of my first thoughts was that it looked like a member of the Laveteria family.

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    ^ Ya! Looks like the same leaves, buds and flowers, but BH's looks alot bigger.

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    ^The plant actually belongs to a neighbor and is quite large. About four meters high, I would guess, and covered with dozens of new flowers every day.

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