Wildflowers

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Originally Posted by freeztar

I did use "vast" correctly, btw.

yes; but i didn't hold that against you.

i haven't posted this photo yet, and there is no mistaking or quibbling as to what it is. this beauty has the power to either heal or kill. widespread here in the pacific northwest, it is an invader from eurasia.

Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea
Green Mountain - Clark County Washington
June, 2009



Foxglove poisoning: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

Poisonous Ingredient
Deslanoside
Digitoxin
Digitalis glycosides
Where Found
Flowers, leaves, stems, and seeds of the foxglove plant
Heart medicine (digitalis glycosides) ...

Digitalis purpurea - WTU Herbarium Image Collection

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Ochna Serrulata is a small South African shrub that make a very nice container plant. One of the common names it have is Mickey Mouse bush. With a little imagination one can see why. Specially in nature where it often have only one berry attached to the red base. The base is green and turn red when the berry starts developing. The berry is green till ripe when it turn black against the red base background.

Curiously enough, but like many South African plants, it is not widespread in SA gardens, yet is cultivated extensively in Hawaii and has taken on weed status in New South Wales and Southern Queensland, Australia as Michaelangelica can probably tell you.