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hint with an evenig beer during the next 7 days

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an ornamental, pretty common in Malta
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1) Are those 4 petals or 4 sepals?
2) Are they really brown or the tips are burnt by wind/heat ?
3) Is the flower mature or old?

1)+2)+3) = signs of despair! :P
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hupps- I forgot this quiz :-D
no petals-
really brownish-
mature-
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ok: Christmas hints!
1. its a shrub,
2. often pruned in Malta and pretty common!
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It is a plant for advanced members like greenhorn or Sdravko, not me :oops:
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he he... How many species in Malta are very common pruned shrubs- just a few, and if you exclude the ones which cannot be this one, you will get it!
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btw: I know that greenhorn knows it!!
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If not Atriplex then I'm lost, you can help by providing different photos from different angles or parts of the shrub.
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ok, to extinguish outstanding debts from 2006: it is again Dodonaea viscosa!
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In fact it was a species recentely posted by Greenhorn for ID,
http://maltawildplants.com/forum/download.php?id=934


Another difficult quiz from the Master !!!
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