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Plant to ID
I have a plant that needs ID'd. Since Cereus-Validus makes fun of
anyone else who doesn't appear to be a walking encyclopedia like he thinks he is, hopefully he'll be the expert who can ID it. This is the "adult" plant in bloom. It has been heavily fertilized. http://a5.cpimg.com/image/73/66/4732...-0200016A-.jpg This is a "baby" http://a8.cpimg.com/image/76/66/4732...-02000180-.jpg This is another young plant http://a3.cpimg.com/image/7B/67/4732...-02000180-.jpg |
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possible it's dracaena fragrans (often called 'corn plant', because the
leaves look like the leaves of a real corn plant. here's a site with some pics of leaves and flowers on the right. there are many varieties with variegated leaves, but some are simply green like yours. "SedumQueen" wrote in message ups.com... I have a plant that needs ID'd. Since Cereus-Validus makes fun of anyone else who doesn't appear to be a walking encyclopedia like he thinks he is, hopefully he'll be the expert who can ID it. This is the "adult" plant in bloom. It has been heavily fertilized. http://a5.cpimg.com/image/73/66/4732...-0200016A-.jpg This is a "baby" http://a8.cpimg.com/image/76/66/4732...-02000180-.jpg This is another young plant http://a3.cpimg.com/image/7B/67/4732...-02000180-.jpg |
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Yes, it looks like a badly grown Dracaena fragrans.
Actually it looks nothing like Zea mays, if you compare the leaf arrangement of the two close up. "presley" wrote in message ... possible it's dracaena fragrans (often called 'corn plant', because the leaves look like the leaves of a real corn plant. here's a site with some pics of leaves and flowers on the right. there are many varieties with variegated leaves, but some are simply green like yours. "SedumQueen" wrote in message ups.com... I have a plant that needs ID'd. Since Cereus-Validus makes fun of anyone else who doesn't appear to be a walking encyclopedia like he thinks he is, hopefully he'll be the expert who can ID it. This is the "adult" plant in bloom. It has been heavily fertilized. http://a5.cpimg.com/image/73/66/4732...-0200016A-.jpg This is a "baby" http://a8.cpimg.com/image/76/66/4732...-02000180-.jpg This is another young plant http://a3.cpimg.com/image/7B/67/4732...-02000180-.jpg |
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Presley, I didn't see the link you were referring to. Please post
again. I have researched the dracaenas before, but don't think this is what I have. The adult plant pictured was growing at my grandmother's house in Illinois and was very heavily fertilized with fish emulsion. The babies are at my place in the southern US and are probably close to 10 years old. The mother plant produces offsets along it's "trunk" and the bloom looks different than any of the dracaenas pictured on the internet. The trunk is very papery from where the previous leaves have died off and the leaves are at least twice as long as the dracaena fragrans. Since the mother plant and babies are grown in different places, but still look just alike, I don't think it's a matter of the plant looking like this because it's badly grown. Does anyone else have a guess? |
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Post a picture of it in bloom.
Guessing is a waste of time. "SedumQueen" wrote in message ups.com... Presley, I didn't see the link you were referring to. Please post again. I have researched the dracaenas before, but don't think this is what I have. The adult plant pictured was growing at my grandmother's house in Illinois and was very heavily fertilized with fish emulsion. The babies are at my place in the southern US and are probably close to 10 years old. The mother plant produces offsets along it's "trunk" and the bloom looks different than any of the dracaenas pictured on the internet. The trunk is very papery from where the previous leaves have died off and the leaves are at least twice as long as the dracaena fragrans. Since the mother plant and babies are grown in different places, but still look just alike, I don't think it's a matter of the plant looking like this because it's badly grown. Does anyone else have a guess? |
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Your first picture is supposedly the plant in bloom but need to see the
floral stem and flowers close-up to make out the details. Trying to see it with binoculars don't work over the internet. "Cereus-validus....." wrote in message ... Post a picture of it in bloom. Guessing is a waste of time. "SedumQueen" wrote in message ups.com... Presley, I didn't see the link you were referring to. Please post again. I have researched the dracaenas before, but don't think this is what I have. The adult plant pictured was growing at my grandmother's house in Illinois and was very heavily fertilized with fish emulsion. The babies are at my place in the southern US and are probably close to 10 years old. The mother plant produces offsets along it's "trunk" and the bloom looks different than any of the dracaenas pictured on the internet. The trunk is very papery from where the previous leaves have died off and the leaves are at least twice as long as the dracaena fragrans. Since the mother plant and babies are grown in different places, but still look just alike, I don't think it's a matter of the plant looking like this because it's badly grown. Does anyone else have a guess? |
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I tried scanning just the bloom from my picture at 1600 dpi to see if
that will help. The picture was taken 10 years ago and I haven't been back there since to get a better picture. I have a digital camera now, so I could get a great pic if I was there. Anyway, here is a close-up of the bloom: http://a7.cpimg.com/image/41/65/4734...-014B0200-.jpg |
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Cannot make out any detail. Looks like the flowers are all faded.
If the floral stem is a lateral scape with an umbel of flowers, it may be an Amaryllid, possibly a Crinum. Would need to see it in full bloom to figure out which one. http://www.bulbsociety.com/GALLERY_O...inumlist.shtml "SedumQueen" wrote in message oups.com... I tried scanning just the bloom from my picture at 1600 dpi to see if that will help. The picture was taken 10 years ago and I haven't been back there since to get a better picture. I have a digital camera now, so I could get a great pic if I was there. Anyway, here is a close-up of the bloom: http://a7.cpimg.com/image/41/65/4734...-014B0200-.jpg |
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Last year, someone in a yahoo pepperomia group thought it was a crinum,
too, but I hadn't been convinced. However, last night I emailed a website (Old House Gardens) that sells crinums and this is what they said: "Thanks for your inquiry! The photos finally came through and we do not think that what you have is a crinum. A crinum is a bulb and the foliage would come right out of the ground, there wouldn't be a trunk or any woody part of the plant. Unfortunately, the bloom looks a little past it's prime, so it's hard to say what you've got, but we don't think it's a crinum." Does anyone else have any idea? |
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Crinum is a very large genus and NOT all the species, especially the ones
that normally grow in swampy ground, have a bulb. Show us pix of the plant in full bloom and it can be identified with certainty. Will especially need to see pix of the flowers themselves too. "SedumQueen" wrote in message oups.com... Last year, someone in a yahoo pepperomia group thought it was a crinum, too, but I hadn't been convinced. However, last night I emailed a website (Old House Gardens) that sells crinums and this is what they said: "Thanks for your inquiry! The photos finally came through and we do not think that what you have is a crinum. A crinum is a bulb and the foliage would come right out of the ground, there wouldn't be a trunk or any woody part of the plant. Unfortunately, the bloom looks a little past it's prime, so it's hard to say what you've got, but we don't think it's a crinum." Does anyone else have any idea? |
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What little can be told from your pix is that it is probably closest to the
widely grown, weedy Crinum asiaticum. The species is polymorphic in the wild and there many wild and garden hybrids of it also. http://www.amaryllidaceae.org/Crinum/index.htm Old House Gardens does not specilize in tropical bulbs. "Cereus-validus....." wrote in message ... Crinum is a very large genus and NOT all the species, especially the ones that normally grow in swampy ground, have a bulb. Show us pix of the plant in full bloom and it can be identified with certainty. Will especially need to see pix of the flowers themselves too. "SedumQueen" wrote in message oups.com... Last year, someone in a yahoo pepperomia group thought it was a crinum, too, but I hadn't been convinced. However, last night I emailed a website (Old House Gardens) that sells crinums and this is what they said: "Thanks for your inquiry! The photos finally came through and we do not think that what you have is a crinum. A crinum is a bulb and the foliage would come right out of the ground, there wouldn't be a trunk or any woody part of the plant. Unfortunately, the bloom looks a little past it's prime, so it's hard to say what you've got, but we don't think it's a crinum." Does anyone else have any idea? |
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