Trim down strings to least common base

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01-19-06, 08:49

mstuhu

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Trim down strings to least common base

I have a table with entries in a field like these:

Flowers blue
Flowers red
Flowers yellow

Now I want get MySQL to return me the least common base of the string,
which is "Flowers" in the above case.

Is there a way to do this in a single SELECT query?

Any hints are appreciated.

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