Don't you agree that Avatar was the best plant movie? In honor of that botanical animation, here are three plants as they unfurled in the past several weeks. As you know, I find many plants most compelling before they flower.
They all look like they could live underwater, but anybody want to weight in with their earthly names?
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I have no idea what these are, but they look beautiful, especially the color of the bottom photo (which I have to venture looks a bit like a tree peony to me).
I titled the bottom one "On Fire," Altoon, because the beauty affects me to. Tree Peony a good guess, but let's see if anybody else knows. A clue: the emerging foliage is very different from the color this plant is characteristically known for.
Top one is tough; perhaps dogwood, but the branching looks like a magnolia to me. We have a number of dwarf maples with that pink and green combo but they tend to have pink stems leading off the branch.
MIddle might be a cimicifuga or a blue cohosh?
Bottom one is a sumac (Tiger Eye?)
Really interesting to see how we perceive. TigerEyes Sumac (Rhus 'BailTiger') correct. The leaves turn chartreuse.
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