Eye - 24 August 2012

From flora to fiction

Left: Hollyhock blooms. Right: Gladiolus blooms. | Photo: Left: Mark Pilbeam / flickr CC. Right: kator29 / flickr CC

Friendly flora

Thank you to budding botanist Malcolm Edmunds, of Preston Meeting, who wrote in to help us widen our familiarity with flora: ‘The caption to the attractive cover of the Friend (10 August) says it is a Gladiolus, but it is actually a very different plant belonging to the Mallow family, almost certainly a hollyhock.’

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