MYSTERY PHOTO: Interesting Lowcountry plant

Here’s an interesting Lowcountry plant because it is reportedly the only one in North America with this characteristic.  What is the plant and what is the characteristic?  Send to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our Dec. 7 photo, “Hers, not his,” showed a sign for a West Ashley grocery store, Doscher’s, that was missing a few letters.  But lots of readers — including several who had never before guessed a mystery photo — identified the stores, which is next to Whole Foods on Savannah Highway.  One person even wrote that it was her favorite place to buy chicken feet!

Congratulations to those who identified the store:  Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Jay Altman of Columbia; Bruce Jayne of Saluda, N.C.; Joe Mendelsohn, Colette Wilkerson, Christopher Gilliard, Jeanette Burton and Sharon Shaw, all of Charleston; Barry Shear, Marian Greely, Bobby Thomas and Jama Tuck, all of West Ashley; Opal Moorehead of James Island; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Joan Simocat of North Charleston; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; Bill Segars of Hartsville; and Darren Spencer.

Peel, after apparently looking at historical pictures of the sign, correctly concluded that the first four letters of the sign were knocked off after a wind event earlier this year: “While I cannot be 100 percent certain as to when this photo was taken, it was most likely shot sometime after one of the last major storms to hit the area on May 20, 2020.”

Segars saw the funny side of the sign:  “I wish that this grocery store was near me.  When my wife and I got married 41 years ago, one of the few rules that I laid down was ‘I don’t go to the grocery store, I’ll pay for groceries, but I don’t go get them.’  Well you can imagine how long that rule stood.  Until our first child came, which were twins.  Debbie then told me that if I wanted to eat, she’d suggest that I’d pay for the groceries and go get them.  The twins are grown and gone and I still know my way around the grocery store.  But if I had one named ‘Hers,’ I could at least try my rule again, probably with the same results.”  

• 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 it along to  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.