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Being silly again, huh? Or just wanted
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Eeeeew, no way!
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Getting close, as both are woody
plants... but no cigar!
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Go ahead, keep being silly. Clicks don't
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Hmmm, we didn't mean this picture to
match that term. Yet there is homophone (a word that sounds the
same but has a different spelling) that could be part of this
flower's description!
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Keep trying. For umbel to apply, this
mushroom would have to be a flat-topped cluster of flowers that
blooms from the outer edges inward.
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Keep trying. That word could only apply
if a fungus could make a flat-topped flower cluster that blooms
from the center outward.
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No match -- pretty much has to be a
woody plant to have a drupe. The pictured plant's herbaceous.
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No way, drupe's are "stone fruits" like
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No way, on far ends of the spectrum at
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No, although both are biennial
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No, although both grow on
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No, although both the pictured fruit
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No, although the two are very good
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No, but it is another plant that has
"persica" (Persia) in its scientific name.
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No, but the configuration of flowers
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No, but they are in the same
family!
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flowers.
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No, if this plant had flowers in an
umbel the birds would pluck first from the outer part of each
cluster, as those would ripen first.
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No, not a match --- although the plant
had to have pistils to have made berries.
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No, not a match, especially since the
fruit you see is moist while the other is dry.
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No, sorry, this name is for an
herbaceous plant. You need to match to a woody plant.
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No, sorry. The only money involved in
this plant is its sale price.
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No, sorry. The pictured plant does
have that part but it's not showing it now.
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No, that term refers to a cluster of
flowers but the pictured flower is solitary.
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No, the berries you see are edible
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No, the picture is of a flower, while
that term refers to a later stage of growth.
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No, the picture's of a flower, the
term has more to do with support.
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No, the picture's of a plant's final
product, the term occurs during an earlier stage.
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No, the picture's of a plant's tip
growth, the term has more to do with support.
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No, there is no berry in this
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No, this flower is not from a
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No, this flower makes its seeds inside
"capsules" not in silicles.
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No, try again. A tepal is a flower bud
cover that colors up and masquerades as a petal. Though some
mushrooms are pretty showy, tepals they have none.
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Nope, although the way this plant
multiplies one could wish it produced money!
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Nope, keep going. Magnolia is a tree
that has the pictured plant's name mixed into one of its common
names, is all.
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Nope, most umbel flowers are round
clusters. The pictured cluster's a bit taller than wide and going
to become almost twice as tall as it matures.
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Nope, these fruit clusters and the
flowers that produced them are flat-topped, while most racemes are
taller than wide.
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Nope, think springbloom for
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Nope, think summerbloom for
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Nope, this answer you chose is a bulb
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Nope, this answer you chose is a bulb
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Nope, this answer you chose is a woody
plant. You need a non-woody answer.
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Nope, this flower cluster's a bit
taller than wide and going to become almost twice as tall as it
matures, while most cymes are broad and flat-topped.
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Nope, this flower cluster's flat and
wide, while most racemes are taller than wide.
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Nope, this flower cluster's pretty
round, while most racemes are taller than wide.
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Nope, this flower is elongate, while
most cymes are flat-topped.
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Nope, this flower is taller than wide,
while most umbels are round or flat-topped.
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Nope, this flower, like most, has that
part but we're using the image to illustrate something else.
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Nope! The term applies to covers that
peel back as the flower bud opens, nothing a 'shroom can lay claim
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Nope! The term names the
seed-producing "female" flower part, which a 'shroom doesn't
have.
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Nope! Try again - the term applies to
clusters of flowers or fruit and we're looking at just one
"fruit."
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Nope! Try again!
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Nope. See the seed pods already
forming at the outside edge of the cluster? That means the outer
flowers opened first so this can't be a cyme.
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Nope. The outer flowers open first in
this cluster so this can't be a cyme.
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Not the right name, sorry!
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Not the right plant name but the two
have a scrabbling term in common!
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Not wise to confuse these two as one's
quite edible, one to be handled with care.
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Now we know you're just being
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Oh no, that terms refers to a dry seed
pod but what's in the picture is pretty juicy.
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Sorry, no. We're using this picture to
illustrate a whole-flower term. The word you chose refers to just
one part of a flower.
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Sorry! And, really now, who'd call
that lacy?
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Sorry! It's possible to use this
picture to illustrate that term, but we're using it to illustrate
something else.
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Sorry. About all they have in common
is that one is expensive and the other sounds like it could
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Ta da, that's a match!
Back to the garlic chives.
Back to the magnolia
Back to the rose.
Back to the lily.
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Ta da, that's a match! Mustard family
plants like this money plant form their seed in a structure called
a silicle.
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Ta da, that's a match! The fruits
contain a pretty potent toxin, thus the "bane" in its name.
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Ta da, that's a match! We're
illustrating the pollen producing "male" parts of the flower --
stamens.
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That's a negative. The term names the
pollen-producing "male" flower part, which a 'shroom doesn't
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That's ridiculous!
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Total silliness.
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Try again. Even though the Dutch who
earned fortunes selling these in the early 1600's might have called
it money plant.
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Try again. That word is reserved for
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Try again. The term refers to a dry,
flat seed pod, which is way out of the league of a spore producing
fungus.
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Well done! Tepal is correct. The
covers of this flower's bud don't just fold back but continue to
grow and color up. They end up just as colorful as the true petals.
So what would usually be called sepals upgrade to "tepals."
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Well done! That's correct.
Back to purple flower
Back to the cluster of small fruit.
Back to the lacy white flower with
insect.
Back to the single big fruit.
Back to the dangling green pods.
Back to the pink flower.
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Well done! That's correct. The stalk
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Well, no. Although the flowers on both
plants are rather flat and lacy.
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Well, no. Although they do both have
white flowers...
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without insect
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Well, shoot. These fruits are indeed
drupes but we're using the picture to illustrate a different
term.
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Yes, indeed, this plant's flower form
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Yes, indeed, this plant's flower form
is a raceme. It's an elongated flower cluster where each floret has
its own stalk and the tip of the flowering stem keeps growing new
flowers.
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Yes, indeed, we are using this image
to illustrate the flower- and fruit configuration called cyme.
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Yes, indeedy!
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You're just clicking for fun,
right?
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Yes, indeed, we are using this image
to illustrate pistil, the female part of a flower. That central
tower of yellow is a cluster of pistils.
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Well done! That's correct. The green
tails below the flowers are the sepals that were covering the
flower bud and folded back as it bloomed.
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Nope! But you're close; if those green
tails under the flower had developed showy color...
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That's a stretch... beauty and the
beast! Try again.
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No, although these two plants are said
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No, but you're getting close.
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We've done
puzzles before...
Here, check Shadow Play,
or Eye Level, or the
Rare Items Mystery in Ensemble
issue #50, Edible Flower Buds in Ensemble issue
#34, and Glasses On.
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