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Sacha[_1_] · 19-11-2006, 04:58 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 19/11/06 14:21, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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We have two plants we were given and neither we nor the donor know the
variety. The first is a climbing nasturtium which in a pot, in an
unheated
polytunnel, has gone to 8' and is spreading along the wires. It still has
flower buds on it. The seeds came from a friend whose nephew brought them
back from Chile - so perhaps you begin to see the difficulty in getting an
ID! The flowers are orange with a 3 to 4" long stem and a spur that is
1.5
to 2" long. The inside of the flower has darker orangey/red, very fine
stripes right in the throat of the two larger top petals and each of the
three smaller low petals has a red blotch on it and is fringed. I should
think each flower is probably about 1" diameter. It's a really charming
plant and both vigorous and floriferous and we'd love to know what it is.
The second plant was given to us by someone in Wales who has a
conservatory
full of exotic plants. He says this is a Passiflora and he calls it the
Passion Flower Tree. It isn't the usual climbing and twining Passiflora
but
it has a trunk, currently about 2" thick at the bottom, without any
branches
but with very large leaves about 1' long and 8" across at their present
best. It was a bit frail when it came here so it hasn't flowered yet.
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No idea on the second but is the first T. tuberosum? if it is it will
produce nobly tubers below ground, but its relatively common so you may
already know its not!

No, it's not that one because it's the same colour all over. It doesn't
have that red flush to the spur and I don't think T. tuberosum has the
orange/red blotches? It's not as tubular looking as that, either.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/