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What Sort Of Flower Is This?

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What are these lovely yellow flowers called? This beautiful photo is by photographer Peter Young, but we don’t know what the flower is…over to you, brilliant blogging friends 🙂

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16 thoughts on “What Sort Of Flower Is This?

  1. Gorgeous photo and flowers! I’d love to know too! Sorry I can’t help 😊 xx

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  2. I didn’t, a friend at a writing group did and threw this out as a challenge! 😉

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  3. Never seen them but definitely beautiful..!

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  4. I’m definitely the wrong person to ask, but I agree they’re lovely!

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  5. possibly wild sunflowers? inula helecanium (sp?)

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    • Similar, we think, Cindy, and thanks for the suggestion, but overall it’s thought that the flower is Doronicum orientale common name: Leopard’s Bane, which, according to Kew Gardens, is ‘an early-flowering, lemon-yellow daisy, with a single flowerhead on an upright stem, and soft, rounded leaves’.

      Maybe the mystery is resolved 😀

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  6. Well now…the latest is that the friend who asked the question has had more input and believes the flower to be Inula, as Cindy said. Well done Cindy 🙂 Glad we can rely on the blogging world to come up with great suggestions 🙂 Details below:
    · Inula is a large genus of about 90 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa.

    · Higher classification: Asteraceae

    · Lower classifications: Inula britannica, Inula salicina, Elecampane, Inula ensifolia

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  7. I don’t know either but they are pretty.

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