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25th July 2005, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
Growing in a slow-flowing stream mixed in with Water Forget-me-not, a Duckweed and a Water Crowfoot. These Coppery Monkeyflowers are most probably an intentional 'escapee' from nearby gardens. The flowers are mostly yellowish with a hint of orange on the outside, but internally mostly orange with splashes of yellow. |
25th July 2005, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
All the larger leaves in this photo are that of Coppery Monkeyflower. Flowers are yellower on the outside, and more orange on the inside. |
25th July 2005, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves have three to five distinct and curved veins. |
25th July 2005, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
Rather like a tuba, the flower flares markedly where the flower tube resolves into five petals. |
6th June 2006, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
On the Corolla the orange/red spots are so densely populated as to merge into one another, almost covering the surface leaving only a few patches of the underlying yellow, whereas the inner part has much fewer spots and is mainly yellow. Five petals, bi-laterally symmetric; larger lower lobe which has a central nick. No pollen is to be found on the anthers of Copper Monkeyflower. |
25th July 2005, Waters Road, Marsden. | Photo: © RWD |
Before fully open, the corolla forms a cone with discontinuity half-way along, rather like a large nut-spinner spanner. Note the orange dots on the sepal tube, or calyx. The leaves in opposite pairs, with rounded triangular teeth. |
No relation to : Monkey-Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana) or Monkey Orchid (Orchis simia) [plants with similar names belonging to differing families] Not to be confused with : Orange Balsam [which has much the same orange/yellow colouring with orange/red splashes of colour (but totally different shape)].
This, Differs from Hybrid Monkeyflower in that the outer corolla part of the flower is mainly orange on a yellow background, with the inner throat being mainly yellow with only a few orange/red spots. Coppery Monkeyflower is sterile lacking pollen on the anthers. Superficial resemblance to : Orange Balsam, which is also mainly orange with yellow flecks. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : the tuba shape with five petals, the mainly orange/red corolla with splashes of yellow, and the yellow inner with much less densely scattered orange spots.
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