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What Flower is this?
Bob Hobden wrote:
Eutaxia obovata Good one Bob ... and the flowers look absolutely right. However, Eutaxia has sharp, but obovate leaves (hence the specific name) and the one in the pic clearly shows needle-like leaves. Still, its a very close call. |
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What Flower is this?
"Dave Poole" wrote after... Bob Hobden wrote: Eutaxia obovata Good one Bob ... and the flowers look absolutely right. However, Eutaxia has sharp, but obovate leaves (hence the specific name) and the one in the pic clearly shows needle-like leaves. Still, its a very close call. Dave, I had a good close look at the original photo and thought I could see some "spines" seemed thicker in the middle like we were seeing all the leaves side on so they just looked like spines. If not, the flowers are so similar perhaps it's another member of the same genus. I just seem to remember seeing this plant somewhere. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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What Flower is this?
Bob Hobden wrote:
Dave, I had a good close look at the original photo and thought I could see some "spines" seemed thicker in the middle like we were seeing all the leaves side on so they just looked like spines. If not, the flowers are so similar perhaps it's another member of the same genus. I just seem to remember seeing this plant somewhere. Doesn't it just get you like that? You see something and are almost sure what it is but .... I've just done a trawl of pics of both genera and then racked my brains to get the memory cells working. The flowers could be from any one of half a dozen genera and without any indication of size and better defined floral characteristics, no-one can say more than "maybe ...". If the leaves are any more than 1mm. across and distinctly broader at the mid point, then Eutaxia it probably is. If they are 1mm. or less across and without any significant increase in breadth at the mid point, then it is probably Pultenaea. The reality is that it will most likely remain one of several possibilities. I'll admit to my preference simply because I've grown it and immediately recognised the flowers, the way they are carried etc. etc. |
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