I have some unusual looking things in my garden but the Ox-Tongue Lily would have to be one of the strangest.
The waxy-looking flower pushes its way out of the soil over several days, followed a couple of weeks later by the big, fleshy leaves that give it its name. So far it's just the one flower... that greenery belongs to an adjacent succulent.
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That is a strange looking flower but so pretty when it finally blooms.
I'm glad you're slowly rejoining the land of the living.
That is the wierdest looking flower I have seen, but I love the colour.
Sue
Very weird looking! I was expecting something monstrous when I read the word "triffid"!
We have a triffid tree in teh front yard which is reaching for the skies and triffid blackberries in the back yard growing down from the trainline. I can sit and watch them grow. This is inner city Sydney, not the bush!
That flower is a truly beautiful colour.
Hope you improve quickly. I wonder if it's the same lurgy as is going around up here. I thought it was a cold but the killer headache made me wonder. Then I heard of others and the headache seems to be an identifying symptom. I haven't had a migraine in a couple of years and was annpoyed when I woke up with one, but it seems to be part of the illness. I know several people who've had it.
Nothing I took even looked like ameliorating the headache.
how freaking cool is that!!
is it weird that this reminded me of that episode of x-files where people inhaled the weird spores from the volcanic expedition and then the fungi burst out their throats?
Not at all Nadie - although mine's a lot prettier and has shown no signs of a predatory parasitic nature as yet :]
That lollypop turned into a beautiful flower. Nature is wonderful.
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