Not too sure about the "nut" description, but keep in mind those similar shots don't earn any extra credit. It reminds me of new cultivars that I can't tell from of the older ones, yet people still seem to appreciate them. Even if a photo looks similar to me, that does not mean the person taking it did not see a reason for showing it. I was looking at some today that looked very similar, then I noticed some tags showing in one and not the other. It could have been they wanted to show the tags, or it could have been they did not want to show the tags. Maybe one photo shows the edge better, one shows a faint eye pattern better,. etc. As anyone into daylilies knows, we all make up excuses, when in fact sometimes we just can't resist taking another photo of a favorite. Similar to showing family photos to strangers, to them the twenty pics of the new grandchild all look alike.
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I was just looking at a local little news letter, it had two similar pictures and you had to find the ten differences. I had to look a long time but finally came up with them.