Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: fisher on August 29, 2013, 16:44
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Another flower identification please - also in my daughter's garden. Growing in shady area on quite stony soil. The flower looks like a cistus to me. But leaves definitely not
Thank you for looking!
Fisher :)
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Not cistus, but pretty. Don't know though.
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It looks like a hibiscus, but the flower colour is throwing me a bit. Not one of the run of the mill ones I think :unsure:
How does it grow? Shrubby, herbaceous, tall, small ??
Seems your daughter has inherited a garden from someone who liked their plants and sought out the unusual :)
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Looks like a potentilla.
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Aha! G 61... it does look like a potentilla now Ive been googling! Seems like there are a lot of varieties within the genus and some have palmate leaves. the colour is unusual tho . Ill have to keep searching!
Thanks all!
Fisher :)
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The stamens look wrong for a potentilla - I'm still thinking :wacko:
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The stamens look wrong for a potentilla - I'm still thinking :wacko:
Yes. Potentilla flowers look similar to those of a strawberry. Thinking.
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I am going for Hibiscus as I was given a pink one as a wedding present. It isn't in flower so I can go out and check, but the leaves look the same. Def not a potentilla.
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The leaves are wrong for hibiscus. Looking more closely at them, they seem to be like a geranium.
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This is my hibiscus, different stamen. :unsure:
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/rooster012_zps689d8bb9.jpg) (http://s673.photobucket.com/user/tosca100-dog/media/rooster012_zps689d8bb9.jpg.html)
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Cranesbill prehaps
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most geraniums have long stamens as well :blink:
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Hibiscus voters: I wonder if it is from the Malvaceae family- apparently there are 200 species. The dark centre looks similar doesn't it? But the flowers are only about 4cm across and it's low growing - maybe up to 20cm. The petals are separate too- not overlapping. I'll have to get my daughter to do some more photos for me!
Thanks for looking all
Fisher:)
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Just had a look through Hessayon's flower book. The nearest was Androsace but their flowers seem to be in a cluster on a single stem. My first thought was a mallow, and I used to have a short one, but it seeded everywhere so I don't have one to compare. As yours is low-growing, I giggled images of short-growing mallow, and the nearest is the Cape Mallow - try it and see. Funny thing is, your pic does remind me of something but don't know what.
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Good call GG! I found this whilst searching for Cape Mallow
http://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/herbarium/Anisodontea-malvastroides.-img131772.html There's a question mark tho! But we're getting very close now!
It's apparently tender- but is in a fairly sheltered corner
Thanks again
Fisher :)
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Was not sure what size your flower was. Bacopa has very small flowers of that shape and is happy in stony areas.
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I had a sudden thought it could be of the Geum family, but I think the stamens are wrong.