What is this ?

[Toddy]

A friend who has been taking a photo a day of plants and animals took this down Strathclyde Park, so it's growing in the middle of Lanarkshire. Son1 asked me what it was, but I'm stuck
What is it ?

http://imgur.com/a/4CxJF


.......and if anyone can tell me how to post the photos here, it would be appreciated.
I tried editing the url to img but no joy.

atb,
Toddy

 

[Mesquite]

You need to right click on each picture individually to obtain its URL Mary

 

[Toddy]

 

[Toddy]

Steve, you're a gem
Thank you

I'm using an Apple mini and it's .....let's just say that it's not windows, iimmc

M

 

[British Red]

I'm using an Apple mini
M

Is that a "crab apple" (although I ma have mis-spelled the last letter of the first word )

 

[Toddy]

It's actually very good, and it's size, 6.5 x6.5x 2" instead of a huge great box of a usual pc, means that it sits on my desk neat and tidy leaving loads of space for other stuff.
It's the trackpad thing that gets me most confused. I use it for most things without any bother at all (find myself stroking flat surfaces expecting computery things to comply ) but the copy/paste of images is still a confusion to me.

Any idea what the plant is though ?

M

 

[JAG009]

Try this site Mary, it might help ,I tried it, but its asking for leaf shape which I cant see on the pics ...http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...vUgfgJ&usg=AFQjCNE0H7WtQGjHUByImRLQDkr1dJG4Bg

 

[Toddy]

Fiona doesn't remember what the leaf looked like either all she has are the photos that sort of look like something we should know, but no one's pining it down.
It can't be that exotic either, growing in the park

Thanks for the link; I'll have a burrow

M

 

[British Red]

Looks a bit penstemon or aquligia like?

 

[Trencakey]

tolmiea menziesii

 

[Toddy]

Thank you kindly

" It requires moisture and does not tolerate much sun or dry conditions." it'll feel right at home in Lanarkshire then

M

 

[Trencakey]

Google image deserves the thanks ...not me

 

[Macaroon]

It's a very nice little flower, that. Could put me in mind of a tiny wild orchid..........

 

[homesicksteve]

Triffid

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127732

 

[Joonsy]

tolmiea menziesii

it'll feel right at home in Lanarkshire then

Well recognised Trencakey -- apparently the type is named after the Inverness born surgeon/scientist for the Hudson Bay Company William Fraser Tomlie and the species is named after the Scottish botanist Archibald Menzies, so it should be right at home in the land of it’s namesake. The plant is also called ''piggyback'' or ''youth on age'' or ''thousand mothers''. Nice one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolmiea_menziesii