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debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Was reading for any other BFs that would use Acanthus...found this article..a little more than halfway down the page on Flame acanthus:
http://www.npsot.org/Fredericksburg/newsletters2005/News_200...

Yep Crimson Patch! (of course)
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1716
also Texan Crescent:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1731

I spotted a Texan Crescent last week when I was buying Flame Acanthus ... :-) I happened to get a pic of it..

Here Cat had a pic of TC last November nectaring the Duranta:
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/TexasPuddyPrint_1163381207_...

Wonder if anyone is incubating on my new plant, lol!