Plant ID Please.

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Plant ID Please.
« on: July 01, 2014, 17:48 »
Hi

Can anyone identify this plant ?

It was about 12" high, house leek/succulent leaves with this flower spike.



Many thanks, Spotty.

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Re: Plant ID Please.
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2014, 18:00 »
Maybe a Spider's Houseleek - Sempervivum arachnoideum   :unsure:
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Re: Plant ID Please.
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2014, 09:09 »
Good guess, but it the pic's on goog look too small.

I didn't notice any rosettes at the base and the stem, was about 12" tall and as thick as a cucumber. It was very large, not shown by the picture.

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Re: Plant ID Please.
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2014, 10:22 »
How about a pic of the plant, rather than just the flower stalk, then  ;)

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« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2014, 10:58 »
Not possible, taken in Bedfordshire, I'm in Hampshire !

It was just a plant I saw when visiting Old Warden air show on Sunday, the bottom of the plant was surrounded by long grass, hence just the big stalk. 

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Re: Plant ID Please.
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2014, 20:09 »
It is definitely a sempervivum of some sort: their flower heads are very distinctive in style.
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« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2014, 08:50 »
It is definitely a sempervivum of some sort: their flower heads are very distinctive in style.

Yes very much so  :)

The mother rosette tends to wither and die away as the flower stalk grows, so there may not have been much of the base of the plant to look at. 

I have sempervivums growing in a couple of pots and end up with holes whenever one decides to flower.  Luckily they transplant well, so I just move a baby from the edge into the gap  :)

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Re: Plant ID Please.
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2014, 18:52 »
Many thanks, just wondered what it was really.

Just seemed to be a strange plant just ambling along wild on an old airfield.

I got some strange looks when I photographed some Flanders and opium poppies on some old soil, they had dumped at the side.

A woman taking flower photo's at an airshow  :ohmy: ! When all the men are walking around with the Hubble telescope taking pictures of Planes !



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