Sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel but a person posted this on another site
and I can't see that they've had an answer. Any idea what this is? There
are close-ups available, it looks like a mallow of some sort.

http://john-the-r-t.110mb.com/garden/html/gdn192.html

someone

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Sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel but a person posted this on another site
and I can't see that they've had an answer. Any idea what this is? There
are close-ups available, it looks like a mallow of some sort.

http://john-the-r-t.110mb.com/garden/html/gdn192.html

someone


Probably Malva moschata alba (white musk mallow) - there's a white form
of Malva alcea, but that's so rare I've never seen it. (The easiest
distinguishing characters for Malva alcea and Malva moschata are not
shown in the photographs.)
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote
Probably Malva moschata alba (white musk mallow) - there's a white
form of Malva alcea, but that's so rare I've never seen it. (The
easiest distinguishing characters for Malva alcea and Malva moschata
are not shown in the photographs.)

It looks like the white Musk Mallow to me too. I've got this growing in
my wild area where it seeds around in the grass, but have also added it
to the main garden border as it's such a lovely plant.

--
Sue

On Aug 6, 12:22*am, "Sue" wrote:
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote

Probably Malva moschata alba (white musk mallow) - there's a white
form of Malva alcea, but that's so rare I've never seen it. (The
easiest distinguishing characters for Malva alcea and Malva moschata
are not shown in the photographs.)

It looks like the white Musk Mallow to me too. I've got this growing in
my wild area where it seeds around in the grass, but have also added it
to the main garden border as it's such a lovely plant.

--
Sue

I had no idea what it was, but it looks so nice that I might have some
in our garden - thanks everyone.

Stewart Robert Hinsley writes
In message , someone
writes
Sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel but a person posted this on another site
and I can't see that they've had an answer. Any idea what this is? There
are close-ups available, it looks like a mallow of some sort.

http://john-the-r-t.110mb.com/garden/html/gdn192.html

someone


Probably Malva moschata alba (white musk mallow) - there's a white form
of Malva alcea, but that's so rare I've never seen it. (The easiest
distinguishing characters for Malva alcea and Malva moschata are not
shown in the photographs.)

The overall look is exactly right for moschata - I have a lot of it
growing in my garden.
--
Kay

sutartsorric writes
On Aug 6, 12:22*am, "Sue" wrote:
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote

I had no idea what it was, but it looks so nice that I might have some
in our garden - thanks everyone.

It's easy to grow from seed, although you will presumably get a mixture
of the pink and white forms. (I say 'presumably' because I have so many
of both I don't know whether either form comes true - but the pink is
the normal 'wild' form, and the white a variety).
--
Kay

"K" wrote
It's easy to grow from seed, although you will presumably get a
mixture of the pink and white forms. (I say 'presumably' because I
have so many of both I don't know whether either form comes true - but
the pink is the normal 'wild' form, and the white a variety).

I can't say if the white form is -invariably- true from seed, but so far
mine have always had white offspring. I grew the first ones several
years ago now, from seed given me by a farming friend who'd found it on
her land.
--
Sue

Sue writes

"K" wrote
It's easy to grow from seed, although you will presumably get a
mixture of the pink and white forms. (I say 'presumably' because I
have so many of both I don't know whether either form comes true - but
the pink is the normal 'wild' form, and the white a variety).

I can't say if the white form is -invariably- true from seed, but so far
mine have always had white offspring. I grew the first ones several
years ago now, from seed given me by a farming friend who'd found it on
her land.

Whereas I bought a packet of white seed, and now hove about 2/3 pink,
1/3 white (except when I do selective culling). I can't remember the mix
in the first year - whether the initial plants were all white.
--
Kay

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...
Sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel but a person posted this on another
site and I can't see that they've had an answer. Any idea what this is?
There are close-ups available, it looks like a mallow of some sort.

http://john-the-r-t.110mb.com/garden/html/gdn192.html

someone

Thank you so much to everybody who replied, I'll inform the poster on the
other group. It looks like such a nice plant I might try some myself.

Regards,

someone

K wrote:
Sue writes

"K" wrote
It's easy to grow from seed, although you will presumably get a
mixture of the pink and white forms. (I say 'presumably' because I
have so many of both I don't know whether either form comes true - but
the pink is the normal 'wild' form, and the white a variety).

I can't say if the white form is -invariably- true from seed, but so far
mine have always had white offspring. I grew the first ones several
years ago now, from seed given me by a farming friend who'd found it on
her land.

Whereas I bought a packet of white seed, and now hove about 2/3 pink,
1/3 white (except when I do selective culling). I can't remember the mix
in the first year - whether the initial plants were all white.

We have had white for years -so long that I can't remember where the
initial plant came from so it is possible to get homozygous white. Pity
your seed company didn't.

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