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I believe this is a cactus or semi-cactus type. I didn't catch her name :)
Dahlias are the native flower of Mexico and were originally called Acoctli.
The name Dahlia was after a Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl.
At that time they were valued as a vegetable but interest switched from the tubers to the flowers after the first double blooms were bred in 1815.
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