07-08-2003, 10:14 PM
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Can someone identify this plant?
In article , [P
van Rijckevorsel] wrote...
mel turner schreef
Well, you had me mostly convinced that it must be something else,
although I couldn't go along with the Lauraceae idea [I've
never seen any Lauraceae with heads anything like this, and few
if any with opposite leaves]. If those were fruits and not flower
buds, it obviously couldn't be Morinda or any other Rubiaceae, but
I still had no good ideas where else to start looking.
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I suppose that those receptacle-lookalikes gave me the wrong idea, even if
in Lauraceae, whatever form they take (quite a bit of variation possible)
they tend to be neatly cylindrical in circumference.
Indeed those heads are unlauraceous [?] but inflorescences like Umbellularia
californica do exist and something similar might result in a "head" of
fruits.
Opposite leafs do occur in Lauraceae, but are not common.
I guess I should be more careful when it comes to guessing
[shrug] I don't really see why you should-- there's
no penalty for anyone proposing a plausible hypothesis that
seems to fit the data, even if it later gets rejected.
cheers
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