Freak of Nature Foxglove by GBCalls

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jul 10, 2008

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Here is the strangest thing I have seen in the wild. It is a foxglove gone rabid I guess...Honestly I intend to try to transplant this flower or at least preserve the blossom somehow other than photo. Any ideas? Thanks -GB-

Comments (30)

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flora-crassella

4:13AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

wow! wow! wow! Wunderschöne Aufnahme von dieser aussergewöhnlich schönen Blume!!!

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lorandbartho

4:27AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Never seen a white and spotted one! Great photos.

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ledwolorz

4:28AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Beautiful flower,color and detail.Super macro.

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kaward

4:31AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

A bizarre mutation, well spotted and well spotted, great capture!

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Alz2008

4:59AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Beautiful image, Excellent well done..

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emmecielle

5:30AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Beautiful images! :)

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busi2ness

5:41AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Wow, I see what you mean. It's amazing when I realized what you are trying to tell us.

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lizzibell

6:03AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Beautiful flower....

nfrocer

6:12AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

What a beautiful flower - great shot!

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InfiniteMoon

6:18AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

BEAUTIFUL!

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auntietk

6:35AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

I googled on "mutant foxglove" and found a couple other examples of this. I'd never seen that before - it's way cool! Wonderful presentation. Don't bother transplanting this plant. Foxglove is a biennial which means once it's flowered, the plant will die. The best you can hope for is to collect seeds from this plant. (Did you mark it?) The seeds might not breed true, but if you want foxglove in your garden anyway, go gather seeds from this one! Your chances of seeing this sport mutation again will be much higher than with seeds from some random foxglove.

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Littlejock

6:41AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Outstanding flower I never seen before. Superb colours

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Doriutz

6:44AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Beautiful colors and details :)

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ralph49

7:09AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Wow what a great capture, it's almost alien. Yep save the seeds.

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timtripp

8:29AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

fantastic, and quite beautiful!!

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MrsRatbag

8:43AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

I've seen white ones, but never one with a bloom like that -- cool find!

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lucindawind

8:57AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

beautiful .. maybe dry it ?

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wmtdriver

8:58AM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Very Nice

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durleybeachbum

1:14PM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Extraordinary! Tara is right, only the seed will give you a chance. Mark that particular flower with coloured wool or whatever, It's a pretty plant even if you don't get a mutant! Such an interesting pic, thankyou!

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witch_1612

2:36PM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Wonderful Work!!!

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tofi

3:33PM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Lovely capture of a most stunningly unique flower species! I've heard of these myself, but havn't seen one quite like this! I love the speckled bit, superb colours too! An exquisite subject and capture! Thank you so much for sharing!

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Optiramma

4:34PM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Wow that is amazing -- stunning captures and great composition! never saw such a pattern, although we had these, purple mostly and some white, but they didn't survive our winter.

frankie96

7:17PM | Thu, 10 July 2008

Mother nature always pulls some surprises...hope you can get some seeds from this one...great collage..

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