On 22 Sep, 14:21, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:19:04 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley



wrote:
In message .com,
"Cat(h)" writes
On Sep 20, 7:59 pm, "David \(Normandy\)"
wrote:
"Frank Booth Snr" wrote in
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Looks like a clump of strawberry plants.

No. They are definitely not strawberry plants! While there is a certain
similarity to the leaf shape, these leaves are a silvery / blue / green.

Next?

They're amazingly alike, though. Are potentilla and strawbs related?

Cat(h)

In 2002 Mabberley wrote a paper (D.J. Mabberley, Potentilla and Fragaria
(Rosaceae) reunited, Telopea 9(4): 793-802 (2002)) in which he
reclassified strawberries as potentillas.

In 2003 Erikkson et al wrote a paper (Eriksson et al, The Phylogeny of
Rosoideae (Rosaceae) Based on Sequences of the Internal Transcribed
Spacers (ITS) of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA and the TrnL/F Region of
Chloroplast DNA , Int. J. Plant Sci. 164(2):197-211 (2003)) in which
they reported that Potentilla and assorted segregate genera fall into
two groups, each of which is sister to the other. However one of those
groups also contains Alchemilla (Lady's Mantle) and Aphanes (Parsley
Piert), which nobody is very keen on sinking is Potentilla. That implies
restricting Potentilla to the other group.

In simplified terms strawberries (Fragaria) are cinquefoils (Potentilla)
with fleshy false fruits.

Thanks for that most comprehensive answer!

Cat(h)

I just wonder if you are treating it to well, try no feed, of feeding
with Tomato feed to encourage flowering
David hill