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10:15 AM Jul 14, 2012
Otricoli (TR), Italy

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Here's your next challenge on.....NAME THIS PLANT!

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Hint: There's a + sign in its name and these flowers are all on the same plant!

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Latest post Jul 14, 2012 by Tom

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12:37 PM Jul 14, 2012
Mattapoisett, MA
usda zone 6a
Can't find a +.....but is it 

Tabebuia caraiba: Trumpet Tree1????

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12:56 PM Jul 14, 2012
Otricoli (TR), Italy
@PrinceSnow: We're sorry PrinceSnow but that answer is incorrect.

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02:55 PM Jul 14, 2012
Mattapoisett, MA
usda zone 6a
Just so you know,,,I can't give up! Pink and Yellow Honeysuckle?

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03:24 PM Jul 14, 2012
Otricoli (TR), Italy
@PrinceSnow: Buzzer sound, sorry.

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04:52 PM Jul 14, 2012
Mattapoisett, MA
usda zone 6a
Ok, no one else is biting, my house needs cleaning, garden needs tending...but by golly I think I've got it +Laburnocytisus 'Adamii'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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05:47 PM Jul 14, 2012
Otricoli (TR), Italy
Judges? Yes, that's it! How'd you figure it out? I thought nobody would get it!

+Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' (also known as Adam's laburnum or broom laburnum) is a horticultural curiosity; a small tree which is agraft-chimaera between two species, a laburnum, Laburnum anagyroides, and a broom, Chamaecytisus purpureus (syn. Cytisuspurpureus), which bears some shoots typical of the one species, some of the other, and some which are a peculiar mixture of both "parents".

+Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' is a legume, a member of the pea family Faboideae (or Papilionaceae, formerly Leguminosae). The plus sign (+) indicates its unusual origin. The plant can also be described by the formula Chamaecytisus purpureus + Laburnum anagyroides. (It has also been known as +Laburnocytisus adamii, as if it were one species, but strictly speaking it is not one species but two.) Only onecultivar, 'Adamii', is known to have arisen from this graft.



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06:21 PM Jul 14, 2012
Mattapoisett, MA
usda zone 6a
@Tom:Hi Tom! It took A LOT of work. I tried searching bi-color vines, plants trees. Not much help. Then I really studied the picture and separated the yellow from the pink in my mind. I knew that the yellow looked a lot like wisteria....so I searched it and came up with golden chain tree. Once I saw that the flowers were the same, I searched for golden chain tree varieties, and found that there was a variety that when crossed, retained characteristics of both parents....so then I googled and image of it....and there it was!

(This will be great for the middle school science class I teach)

I would not have slept tonight if I didn't get this....This was SO much fun...you have to do one every week or every other week! I would love to have some competitors though :)

Thanks for creating this site...I am having a blast!

Monica
Prince Snow Farm

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07:12 PM Jul 14, 2012
Otricoli (TR), Italy
@PrinceSnow: Thanks Monica. I'll find an ever harden one next time and get you some competitors as well. Then none of you will be able to sleep :-)

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