[flower]

Without seeing your mxs file we're in the dark. As Jason suggests it could be your UV mapping.

With the "Rough Sea" texture, my UV mapping settings are as follows:

Type: Planar
Normalize
Position x,y,z: 0,0,0
Rotation x,y,z: 90,0,0
Scale: x,y: 1,1

Good luck.

Bim

[Bubbaloo]

Please show a render, and possible screen captures of your material settings.