Cyclamen missing from last week’s post!
Dear Readers, what a year it’s been! And to round it off nicely, and ease us into 2021, here is a ‘simple’ plant ID quiz. Each photo comes from a Wednesday Weed of the corresponding month. All you need to do is to ID the plant. Good luck! The answers will appear next Friday morning UK time (8th January 2021), so if you want to be ‘marked’, please get your responses into the comments by Thursday 7th January at 5 p.m. I will ‘unapprove’ any answers when I see them, so that they don’t distract other quizzers, but to be certain of not being influenced I would still write your answers down first.
Onwards!
January
- What species are these small red trees?
February
2. Can you name this tree?
March
3. What plant is this?
April
4. What’s this plant?
May
5. What plant is this?
June
6. What’s this plant?
July
7. What’s this plant?
August
8. What’s this plant?
September
9. What’s this extraordinary plant?
October
10. What species are these splendid street trees?
November
11. What root vegetable was used to play this tarantella?
December
12. What is this tropical fruit?
1, Japanese Cedar
2, Alder
3, Nandina Domestica
4, Alexanders
5, Valerian
6, Red Deadnettle
7, Mugwort
8, Horseradish
9, Cotinus Coggygria
10, Sorbus Aucuparia
11, Carrot
12, Lychees
N°1 Cryptomeria japonica elegans, n°2 Alder, n°3 Nandina domestica, n°4 Angelica archangelica, n°5 Lepidium draba ( white top) n°6 Lamium purpurea ( purple dead nettle) n°7 Artemisia( mugwort) n°8 Rumex ( dock?) n° 9 Cotinus (smoke tree) n°10 Ailanthus n°11 A carrot n° 12 lytchee. Thank you for this quizz and your blog, that I discovered thanks to A London Inheritance. Identifying the plants and finding the English names was fine. And I will follow your blog…
2020 Vision answers
Jan.: Japanese cedar
Feb.: alder
Mar: Nandinia domestica
Apr: alexander
May: hoary cress
Jun: black horehound
Jul: mugwort
Aug.: horseradish
Sept. smoke bush
Oct: rowan
Nov. carrot
Dec. lychees
I always look forward to reading your blog. Many many thanks.
Sylvie Higgins
We are late, but haven’t cheated ….
This is our effort, if you will still accept it ….
Cypress
Alder
– (don’t know)
Alexanders
Cow Parsnip
Deadnettle
Wormwood
Horseradish
Smoke Tree
London Plane
Carrot
Lychee
Hi Rosalind, you got 7.5 out of 12 – you were ever so close with wormwood, it’s actually mugwort, which is in the same family but looks very similar so I have given you a half mark. Thank you for having a go!