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15-10-2006, 06:40 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Sacha[_1_]
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Can anyone identify this plant?
On 15/10/06 18:12, in article
, "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 15/10/06 12:26, in article ,
"Jax"
wrote:
snip It has dark brown bottle
brush
like " spikes/flowers". The more mature fronds also seem to have pale
brown
seeds on the outside of the "bottle brushes". The less mature emerging
baby
bottle brushes are soft and slilky and very dark brown. As they mature
they
fatten up and become slightly more spikey. The leaves are long and
quite
broad and are green with a slight purply tinge.
snip
Try looking at Google images of Penniseum setaceum rubrum and Pennisetum
glaucum. We have these outside in pots and they're tall but sound
somewhat
similar to what you're describing. It might be those when young or some
kind of relative in the millet family. The two we have are not hardy.
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If its not that, try looking up images of Restios (sort of South African
cross between grass and bamboo) there are lots of different sorts.
Clever you. I bet that's it. Does it 'do' with you?
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