Here’s a view of somewhere NOT in South Carolina. Where is it? Send your best guess to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our March 20 image, “A white flower among azaleas,” proved to be more difficult than we expected. It showed the white flower of a wild blackberry growing between azalea leaves. (We strongly believe it is actually a dewberry, a type of blackberry. The berries — if you can get them before the birds snatch them — tend to be smaller and sweeter than traditional blackberries and they bear fruit sooner.)
We got all sorts of other guesses for the berry’s flower, from specialty roses to dogwood. Only one reader, Don Clark of Hartsville, agreed it was a dewberry flower, writing, “Watch out for thorns.” Three readers of sister publication Charleston Currents — Bruce Jayne of Saluda, N.C., Carol Ann Smalley of Charleston and April Gordon of Mount Pleasant — also pegged the flower as that of a dewberry.
Jayne wrote: “The blossom appears to be a dewberry, a cousin to the blackberry which grows on a low-lying vine, and blooms earlier. There appear to be some berries forming to the right of the bloom.” Gordon added, “It’s a dewberry, a ground version of blackberries that blooms this time of year.”
Congratulations also to these readers who said the flower was of a blackberry or from a briar: Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; Charles Davis of Aiken; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
- Send us a mystery: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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