On 9/9/08 16:26, in article , "Hibiscus"
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Yes, I think 7588 is Sweet Yarrow!?

How about 7644, the one with yellow flowers and seed pockets/ pods?

H


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May I ask you a couple of questions? Where are you gardening? Do you not
recognise a Dahlia because it is unfamiliar to you in your gardening area?

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

I don't have my own garden. I love photography and have been taken quite a lot of plant/ flower pictures recently.

I think I know how to differentiate dahlia now. Some of them look like chrysanthemums to me...

They are relatively easy to differentiate, if you look at the stems and leaves. Those of dahlias are fleshy and a bright green [apart from the dark leaved forms, of course], whereas chrysanthemum stems look woody and the leaves are a duller green. Also, chrysanthemum has a very distinctive smell which dahlias don't have.

Thanks, beccabunga.

Another reason why I get confused between dahlia & chrysanthemum:-
We treat dahlia as a type of chrysanthemum in Chinese language.

Dahlia = "Dali chrysanthemum" in Chinese; we also call it "Indian peony".

Chrysanthemum = "chrysanthemum" in Chinese; which we use it to make chrysanthemum tea that has a stronger taste/ smell than camomile tea. By the way, we also treat camomile as a type of chrysanthemum in Chinese - it's known as "sweet chrysanthemum"!!

So I wonder, if dahlia is edible...

On 10/9/08 15:26, in article , "Hibiscus"
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'Sacha[_3_ Wrote:
;815018']On 9/9/08 16:26, in article
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Yes, I think 7588 is Sweet Yarrow!?

How about 7644, the one with yellow flowers and seed pockets/ pods?

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May I ask you a couple of questions? Where are you gardening? Do you
not
recognise a Dahlia because it is unfamiliar to you in your gardening
area?

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

I don't have my own garden. I love photography and have been taken
quite a lot of plant/ flower pictures recently.

I think I know how to differentiate dahlia now. Some of them look like
chrysanthemums to me...


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Ah, got it. I can't find it now but somewhere online there is a terrific
resource of plant photographs which would interest you, I think. There are
just so many different Dahlias that while people could identify one as a
Dahlia, it might be hard to say which one it is, precisely.

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

The tubers are edible [not that I've tried them]. They may however not be very palatable !

Interesting that piece of information about Dahlias in Chinese. While they are both Asteraceae, I am not aware of anyone successfully crossing them.

Re tubers - Hmm... Maybe I've tried them before in Japan. I remember I had some raw flower petals (mostly taken from chrysanthemums), aloe vera (really, really bitter) in a sushi restaurant!

In article , Hibiscus
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I think I know how to differentiate dahlia now. Some of them look like
chrysanthemums to me...



Goodness, I've never seen a dahlia that looked like a chrysanthemum!
Maybe I don't know chrysanthemums well, though. Do you mean the cactus
dahlia type? I wouldn't have said they grow the same way at all, but I
don't know the whole spectrum of Dahlias either!

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk