This flowering quince by my doorstep is in full bloom. After reviewing the past few days of photos I began to notice the way the petals attach. Here are a few different angles that hopefully show the unusual habit of these petals. Click each image for extended detail.
I thought I had discovered a new patch of fetterbush but it looks like early blueberry blossoms.
I had to look up fetterbush- yet another new one to me- looks like blueberries on steroids! The leatherleaf's flowers are lined up perfectly in a single row. It will be interesting to see the fruit of this plant as my field guide describes it only as a "globular capsule". All three (fetterbush, leatherleaf and blueberries) are members of the heath family which also includes mayflowers/trailing arbutus which I have blossoming along the wooded shore back at the lake house right now. ( my mayflowers have always blossomed in April- shows you how odd a spring it has been around these parts).
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~ gretchen
What an awesome book! I have only had a bit of time top skim through but already I can see a wealth of information. What a tremendous amount of work there.
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