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Yellow Flower [May. 10th, 2018|11:06 am]
Tony Grist


Is this a magnolia?

Whatever it is I congratulate it on its sculptural qualities.

My mother would once have known what everything in the garden was but now she asks me- and though I find I know more than I thought I did I've never been a plantsman...
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From: ambezi
2018-05-10 10:25 am (UTC)
Yellow iris I think. Magnolia grows from a shrub to a tree and the flower is whitish to pink.
Nice picture.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-10 10:59 am (UTC)
Ah, but this is a shrub...

And it looks a lot like the things we have in the garden that I know to be magnolias.
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[User Picture]From: halfmoon_mollie
2018-05-10 10:54 am (UTC)
I would say from the look of it that it is some kind of lily, but I don't know that much about flowers and plants, either.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-10 11:00 am (UTC)
It does look like a lily- but it can't be because it's growing on a large shrub. I need to do some googling....
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[User Picture]From: puddleshark
2018-05-10 11:01 am (UTC)
Azalea maybe? They tend to come in yellow and orange...

But it's lovely, whatever it is.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 08:09 am (UTC)
I think azalea is very likely.
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[User Picture]From: pondhopper
2018-05-10 01:57 pm (UTC)
I have never seen a yellow magnolia and if it's a shrub I'm not sure at all. It is absolutely lovely whatever it is. And it's definitely very lily-like. If I saw the leaves it might be easier to figure out what it is.

PS I was wrong. There are yellow magnolias but their sexual organs look very different from this.

Edited at 2018-05-10 01:59 pm (UTC)
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 08:12 am (UTC)
Magnolias seem to come in most colours- but, you're right about the sexual organs.
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[User Picture]From: idahoswede
2018-05-10 04:46 pm (UTC)
I would say a daylily, especially if each flower only lasts one day, two at most, but if they last longer, then it is still a lily.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 08:10 am (UTC)
It does look like a lily- but it can't be because it grows on a shrub. I'm currently leaning towards azalea.
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[User Picture]From: idahoswede
2018-05-13 10:05 am (UTC)
Definitely not an azalea.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 10:12 am (UTC)
Back to the drawing board.
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 10:13 am (UTC)
That looks very much like it. I think we have a positive identification.
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[User Picture]From: sylvanwitch
2018-05-10 06:28 pm (UTC)
Might I suggest this handy tool? https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form

I was just doing a casual search myself because you piqued my interest, but I didn't have enough information for a proper search. Good luck in solving your horticultural mystery! :-)
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[User Picture]From: poliphilo
2018-05-13 08:11 am (UTC)
Thank you. That's helpful.

I'm currently leaning towards azalea.
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