In message , Anne Welsh Jackson
writes
Sacha wrote:

On 2009-05-09 16:30:12 +0100, "Ragnar" said:

I found this in my garden. It is about 9" high at he moment and
stands erect
but has an offshoot at the base which is sprawling. I have another that I
found self-sown in a pot. I did have another in an indoor pot (beneath the
roots of a lemon tree) but without the purplish tinge; it grew
rapidly with
trailing branches over two feet long but it died off when I tried to
transplant it. All three plants seem more or less fleshy but with
the lowest
stems turning woody.











http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/hairyb...40076 8381986

Any ideas? I have a vague idea it might be Abutilon but as I have
never grown this I can not be sure.

It's making me think of some kind of Leycesteria but I'm not
convincing myself!

It is definitely a Leycesteria, and AFAIK there is only one type
of Leycesteria, and that's L. formosa.

There's also Leycesteria crocothyrsos.

I don't see it as a Leycesteria. The lobing of the leaves, especially
the almost separated basal leaves, doesn't match with my photographs of
this, nor with what comes up in Google image search.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley