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Old 16-07-2003, 02:25 AM
Andrey Tarasevich
 
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Default Identify a plant

spun 12 wrote:
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I have a plant I would like identified. I tried looking for a picture of
this plant on a couple of Web sites, but I couldn't find one. The plant
has very distinctive look so, I hope, it shouldn't be too difficult to
identify it from a mere description.

The plant has elongated roundish leaves. Top surfaces of the leaves are
green, bottom surfaces are violet/purple. The leaves are visibly ruffled
and the edges seem to wrap up a bit. Every now and again the stem splits
into three stalks - the middle stalk continues to grow up, while the
side ones hold the leaves. Looks like every split is rotated 90 deg
relative to the previous one.

Does anyone know what's the name of this plant?


Hey that sounds like a plant that I have the lobelias cardinalias
(cardinal)I just I guess I know Florida Driftwood has a pic thats
where I got mine
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Yes, they have a picture of lobelias cardinalias on their Web site, but
it doesn't look similar to my plant (not a very good picture though).

What I see on the picture doesn't seem to have any purple/violet on
undersides of the leaves. My plants leaves have very pronounced deep
violet undersides.

The leaves on the picture are more elongated and wrap towards the
ground. My plant's leaves are ruffled and pretty much horizontal
(parallel to the ground), only their edges wrap upwards a little.

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Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich