If you could be a plant which one would you be?

I am not trying to keep our status as "THE MOST TALKATIVE PEOPLE! " Imagine if I did!!!!

I am trully silly... and I enjoy silly jokes and puns also... I know... I am weird!... but as I sit inside my office, looking at this gorgeous pink amaryllis that is 3/4 open I am wondering what would mean to be a plant! which one would I want to be...so if want to be silly with me....

I love roses... so I would want to be an Old Garden Rose ... a climber I think... and an orange/apricot blend... a real fragrant one!!!!

That's a thought - I could be a fragrant plant like that one that flowers every hundred years and stinks(drac - something).

Maybe an old oak on a farmfield or park for me.

I think I'd like to be an agastache. Those thousands of little bee feet crawling all over me would be like having a neverending massage. Awesome pic Al!

Jeez Kassia, this one is hard for me. I like DL but I also like lilies, especially orientals. I think it would have to be an oriental as my perfume would float on the breeze and tingle the neighbors noses. Also they are tall and regal looking, just the opposite of my human form!! LOL

Ha ha - I considered a thread like this but couldn't bring myself to do it! Is this like a Barbara Walters question for gardeners??!

There was a song 'If I could be any tree that I please...'

There are some interesting common names for plants that would make for humorous choices. Wouldn't want bugs all over me. Kass - have fun with the JB's!! Don't want dogs peeing on me either. It would be one of the carnivorous plants!

A hyrid. One had to pay big bucks to buy.

I would like to be one of those picturesque Black Pines that people see in pictures, clinging to the side of cliffs, reaching up, branching out, never quitting, and just being, a tree...lol.

Sequoia. Sturdy, lives long, somewhat impervious, provides shelter. Basically - a mother!
Actually, i have thought about this often - call it the influence of the 60's, whatever.
I would not want to have aphids or scale or spider mites. I did like the Agastache/1000's of little Bee feet comment!

A pine tree in the Black Forest as the timber is valuable. Furniture made out of this is ungodly expensive. So if I got chopped up I would be worth something.

i would have to be a plant that did not attract ANY bugs,ewwwww, i am scared to death of those things!! are there any plants out there like this??

I'd like to be this; dream on, lol. A dogwood at Huntsville Botanical Garden.

That is a beautiful dogwood.

I second that! Stunning.

Wicked thought here! ☺
Bunga Bangkai aka Titan Arum. Have people all over the world to ooh and ahh over me while I return their admiration with putrid stench!

You left out the more interesting name for it - Amorphophallus!!

You meant this one? Voodoo Lily? :-)

Voodoo lily is the common name for all of them. We are referring to the stinky Amorphophallus titanum.

Hmm....making this old girl blush, Victor.
Tell that to the old modest Indonesians that the stench is secondary to its' phallic resemblance!! ☺☻

Hee hee - sorry!

Perhaps I should seek adulation as a hellebore...he he he....

Oh, I'm thinking a rose. So beautiful in its season, soft petals unfolding in blossoms, fragrant all summer, then rose hips as branches lose flowers, then stalwart thorny canes in winter cold, then spring buds emerging on new canes. . . I love the dependablilty of roses.

Seaweed, I love the ocean. ☺

Don't have to worry about drought, WC!

oh my goodness... I was just looking at pictures that my friends took in CA - the giant redwoods ... gorgeous trees... I love those trees... so old... still standing!!!!

gorgeous dogwood!

i think i am not imaginative enough for this... i keep trying to think of something... nope.
i feel like Morales in A Chorus Line - the character who sings "Nothing"

a hawthorn tree. Flowers in the spring,fruit for the birds,short enough to squat under the power lines, survive the winds,but most important, big old nasty thorns I could hook people with that bothered me!

Len123: That sounds all nice and good, but tell me how come mine doesn't yield berries? Thorns it has plenty though. lol

I have 'Winter King'. It's a fantastic one!

lily love, I would guess that maybe it is a sterile cultivar? Or else the critters get them too quickly? Are you sure it is a hawthorn? Maybe it's a locust?perhaps you live in a zone that doesn't allow us to go dormant?LOL!

Len123: I think the southern's climate doesn't provide the tree with adequate "chilling period", you maybe onto some rationale there. lol with you. We've very brief period of "chillings" which doesn't last but a few days at a time. I understand some plants require many hundreds of hours for this essential resting phase in order to produce flowers/fruits.

Does it have flowers lily? I would think if it has flowers it should produce fruit unless it is sterile.

I'm with heavenscape, I would like to be a hellebore, they are the most popular girl in town, this year, anyway. They are girls, aren't they?

I would be a fungus, maybe 2. Always thought I was a "fungi".

hahaha Dave!!!

Ha!

I think helleboar is the male and hellesow
is the female

what kind of fungus dave?

People, plant or animal as the host?

This message was edited Jan 11, 2008 11:11 PM

Well, I might wish to be a helleboar, then. I won't even get into all the reasons.

Pisolithus tinctorius is a good choice Dave.


This message was edited Jan 12, 2008 8:30 AM

Dave, surely it's rust for you.