Flora Fun

The photos that follow were taken in the past year and many were featured in the Flora Wonder Blog. Since most of you probably skip the verbiage and just look at the pictures, I wonder if you can identify these plants.

Enter my contest then and submit the name of the following 50, with just the scientific genus and species only – no need for cultivar name or variety or subspecies. Keep it simple. I suspect that I would fail with half of them, or more, had I not taken the photos myself.

I have included a brief hint with each to help. Submit your entry to info@buchholznursery.com, and not as a comment on the blog. If anyone in the readership can name all 50 – which would be amazing indeed – I will sell the nursery and pay your way for the next rocket ship ride to space. Or if you prefer, I will give you a guided tour of the Flora Wonder Arboretum where you can visit all of the 50 plants.

What's to lose? Give it a try!

Note: plant identifications on next week's blog.

1) A handsome species

2) A southeastern Asian species

3) Flowers like Spiraea

4) Careful with the conkers!

5) Old World tree

6) Flowers develop on upper leaf surface

7) Introduced by E.H. Wilson from China

8) Specific epithet now changed to rigidum

9) Commonly called "crazy Beth" or "horse blob"

10) Flowers like a small Camellia

11) Commonly called "China fir"

12) North American species

13) Drooping clusters of yellow flowers and bristly fruits

14) Species from Taiwan

15) Chinese species with peeling bark

16) From Europe, known as "mountain tobacco"

17) Genus is the sole representative of its family

18) Native to China, widely planted in Japan

19) Granny's bonnet

20) With bristly veins

21) Bloody

22) Picture a "painted" tree

23) In the Hamamelidaceae family

24) Native to Mexico

25) Native to southeast USA

26) In the Styracaceae family

27) Native American common name

28) Related to Vitis

29) In the Asparagaceae family

30) Very useful

31) Introduced by E.H. "Chinese" Wilson

32) A "false" specific epithet

33) Specific epithet means "hidden"

34) A Spanish name

35) Like an alder

36) Native to Oregon

37) A "nut" pine

38) Specific epithet was a Linnaeus mistake

39) In the Araliaceae family

40) Previously known as Benthamidia

41) Native to Oregon

42) Extremely fragrant flowers

43) Genus name honors Italian physicist

44) A hybrid between Japanese and Chinese species

45) Genus named for a German Jesuit missionary to the Philippines

46) Previously known as Swida

47) Species named for French missionary

48) From central China

49) Eastern North American species

50) Grows in the Jade Dragon Mountains in Yunnan, China.