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Feb 26, 2015 11:15 PM CST
Name: Beverly
Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico (Zone 11a)
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There are a couple of things i can mention now:

Some sites note that certain species are fragrant (particularly the leaves). My plant has zero fragrance.

Another thing that bothers me is how the flower is constructed. Most flowers shown at the various websites have spaces between the petals. You can see in the original photos at the beginning of the thread that the flower petals of my plant are overlapping and have no spaces at all, and no spaces during any time of the development of the flower. Also, the flowers are always uniform as well as abundant. I would say exactly the same without variation. All the flowers produced seeds...enough seeds to build a house.

I am way behind you because i haven't yet had a chance to read the links. I did read a link that said something like <<if there are 5 of something, and something else (about the crown, i think), then the plant is this and such>>. So i think i need to get back to that link. I do not have plant vocabulary so i do not know what a "crown" is or pistoles or stammen and so on and i have never studied Botany. I need to search the web for a good illustration of the anatomy of a flower that i can reference as i read through the links. This is what is holding me up right now. So you have already done 6 laps and i am not yet out of the gate Rolling my eyes. Maybe, since you have advanced so much, i should start with the link that includes if something and if something else then the plant is this species. After that maybe i should start at the end of the links and work backwards. Everything i've seen and/or read so far tells me the plant is not ulmifolia but i don't have the specifics at hand about why i came to that conclusion.
Ah! I just found a book about plants in my library that has a very nice little illustration of the anatomy of a flower that will help me out...doesn't show what a crown is though so i'll look that up. I think i can find something on the internet that will be more thorough...this book is ancient. Okay off i go... Smiling

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