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Eriophora pustulosa
14mm long; very hairy especially at front legs and face; pale pinkish-cream
backed into the curled corner of a lily leaf
Camera flash has flattened the colour. It was pinker looking in normal light This is probably a juvenile.
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Yes I thought of your chocolate spider when I found this one. The google image results show amazing variation in both colour and even abdomen shapes.
I would think this is a female. They usually build a web each night and eat it in the morning, especially if it has taken some damage. I believe this is the male http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/893... but I suspect a complex range of variations for these garden orbs.