Re: Does anyone know what this is?
Yeah, it's a tulip. I hadn't meant to put the name of it in the gallery. It was very pretty, and opened up like that in about 10 minutes.
My wife runs the operating room at a local hospital, and recently became a patient there as well. She was rescuing a stray cat and, after a stop at the vet's, brought it home. When it got out of the carrier, it paniced, and started to climb the bookcase. In attempting to get it down, my wife got hooked on her hands. A day and a half later, her hands were all swollen, and there was severe pain. She went to the ER, to have them looked at, and they admitted her. The cuts had gotten infected, and she had a fever of 102°F. While she was in, her OR crew sent her some flowers. When she was being released, she asked me to take the flowers home. I had parked my van in 96° heat. I turned the air conditioning on immediately, but it took a few minutes to cool down, and in the ten minute trip home, the tulip opened up completely like that.
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