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Official State Flower
Topic Started: Mar 22 2005, 11:08 AM (1,341 Views)
Trailblazer
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The rocks do look a lot like the cedar rose flowers from pine cones, don't they?

We also dig for selenite crystals in the Great Plains Salt Flats in Okla. They are hour glass shaped!!!
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sylley2000
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
Since you're in Oklahoma, you might want to go to the Timberlake Rose Rock Museum in Noble, Oklahoma?

They make scuptures from the rose rocks:

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"This sculpture is about six inches high and consists of five small rose rocks fashioned into a base rock with small copper cattails and copper leaves."

Their website is: http://www.roserockmuseum.org

Sylvia
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jackd
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Here,s the official flower for or province.
it is said we are the only Canadian province having chosen a flower that grows freely in the wild within the province :dunno:
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Walk in front of me, you lead me,
Walk behind me, I lead you
Walk beside me, you are a friend.
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sylley2000
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Sylvia, Grand Bend ON
http://www.bedsandbreakfasts.ca/quebec.htm

Jack, The blue flag iris is the flower native to Quebec that most closely resembles the fleur-de-lis. It replaced the Madonna Lily as Quebec's provincial flower in 1999.

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Don't feel badly that you didn't know. The English words to Oh Canada were changed in 1968, and those changes escape me when I sing it.

Here's a better picture of it:

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jackd
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Thanks Sylvia. As usual, you're right.
I'm far from being an expert on flowers.
I guess I found the fleur-de-lys on an older site which has not been updated since 1999.

Walk in front of me, you lead me,
Walk behind me, I lead you
Walk beside me, you are a friend.
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