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Tuesday - September 02, 2008
From: kingston springs, TN
Region: Southeast
Topic: Plant Identification
Title: Mystery Iris-like plant in Tennessee
Answered by: Joe Marcus
QUESTION:
What is this flower? It came up and bloomed for about five days then died. It was a beautiful white trumpet shaped flower. It had one stem with four flowers. It came up like an Iris but we nver planted this. After it died I noticed some olive sized seed-like nuts at the base of the flowers in the "head" of the flower. can I plant those? Sorry I didn't get a photo but it was gone with the first rain. Thank YouANSWER:
Unfortunately, we cannot identify your plants from the description given. Usually, however, we can identify mystery plants from good digital images. If you can get some good, detailed pictures the next time it flowers, we will probably be able to help.
Please follow the instructions below to get help with a plant ID?
1. Tell us where and when you found the plant and describe the site where it occurred.
2. Take several high resolution images including details of leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, and the overall plant.
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4. Send email with images attached to id@smartyplants.org. Please enter Plant ID Request on the subject line of your email.
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