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  1. August 3rd, 2002, 03:32 PM #1
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    Question weird plant

     
    found this in our yard. i have no idea what sort of plant it is,but its rather nice looking.

    can anyone out there identify it??

    its around six inches tall
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  2. August 3rd, 2002, 05:05 PM #2
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    Looks like some type of orchid. What is your location?
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  3. August 3rd, 2002, 05:14 PM #3
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    Originally posted by fritz the cat
    Looks like some type of orchid. What is your location?
    Marquette,Michigan-Upper Peninsula of Mich.

    where in Wisc do you live?
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  4. August 3rd, 2002, 05:25 PM #4
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    I dont know what it is,but it looks like a Lady's Slipper... except they are bigger than 6" high.
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  5. August 3rd, 2002, 09:04 PM #5
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    Originally posted by draboo


    Marquette,Michigan-Upper Peninsula of Mich.
    Well, that eliminates the orchid idea, Wrong part of the world for orchids to grow in the yard. It does look like a Lady Slipper, but it's to small, Hey! mayby you got a new miniature mutation!

    BTW, Wausau
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  6. August 3rd, 2002, 11:13 PM #6
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    That or it's young.
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  7. August 3rd, 2002, 11:34 PM #7
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    That's very pretty
    I don't know what it is though!!
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  8. August 3rd, 2002, 11:44 PM #8
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    Ohhh sure, at my house in Michigan we get lots of funny looking plants, most of them look like WEEDS.
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  9. August 4th, 2002, 01:24 PM #9
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    I agree with the lady slipper. A lot of times in the wild, lady slippers will not be very large at all but hug the ground with just a short shoot with the flower(s)

    Do the leaves have veins that run along the length of the leaf sort of parallel to each other instead of branching from a single stem?

    If so, then that's right.

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  10. August 4th, 2002, 01:39 PM #10
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    heres another pic of it,my hand included for size clarification. it has no green leaves,its white all the way up from the ground. almost looks fungus-like
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  11. August 4th, 2002, 01:46 PM #11
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    and another looking right at it.

    this **whatever** has got me baffled
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  12. August 4th, 2002, 01:51 PM #12
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    the flower is different, but it could have growing habit's similar to a mystery lily I have. It will produce leaves in the spring that die off. Then later in the summer it send's up the flower stalk. are there more in the area? probably has a small tuber or bulb under it.
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  13. August 4th, 2002, 02:39 PM #13
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    It looks like a little triffid.
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  14. August 4th, 2002, 05:21 PM #14
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    Originally posted by nomaxim
    It looks like a little triffid.
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  15. August 4th, 2002, 05:26 PM #15
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    Of couse it looks like that plant in 'Star Trek' that nailed cap't Kirk & Mr. Spock too!

    Is it only me or does nobody remeber 'Day of the Triffids'!
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  16. August 4th, 2002, 05:29 PM #16
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  17. August 4th, 2002, 05:39 PM #17
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    STAY AWAY!!!

    BURN IT!!!

    AGGHHH!

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    I DO AS YOU COMMAND!
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  18. August 4th, 2002, 05:43 PM #18
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    didn't lost in space have a flower like that once as well? lol
    Helicopters don't fly; they vibrate so much and make so much noise that the earth rejects them.
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  19. August 4th, 2002, 05:50 PM #19
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    WOW!

    I think they did.

    What about 'Space 1999' I think it did too.
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  20. August 5th, 2002, 02:54 PM #20
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    It's called an Indian Pipe

    Monotropa uniflora

    yes I have a degree in Biology

    It prefers humus and rotting trees and such. It has a fungi growing in its roots. That is how it gets its nourishment from the decaying woodland things.

    (I did have to use a guide to help me out, been a few years since I took botony)
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