plant ID please
Marginal water plant, with spikes of blue flowers. I think that it's a
monocot, and perhaps an aroid. Probably cultivated (and doesn't immediately look like anything native). http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3961638427/ I was also going to ask you about the previous plant on my photostream, but in the nick of time I realised that it was Hypericum humifusum - a very different habit to other St. John's Worts. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
plant ID please
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: Marginal water plant, with spikes of blue flowers. I think that it's a monocot, and perhaps an aroid. Probably cultivated (and doesn't immediately look like anything native). http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3961638427/ An Eichhornia? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
plant ID please
On 2009-09-28 13:02:44 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
said: Marginal water plant, with spikes of blue flowers. I think that it's a monocot, and perhaps an aroid. Probably cultivated (and doesn't immediately look like anything native). http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3961638427/ Thalia dealbata, perhaps? snip -- Sacha |
plant ID please
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote ... Marginal water plant, with spikes of blue flowers. I think that it's a monocot, and perhaps an aroid. Probably cultivated (and doesn't immediately look like anything native). http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3961638427/ I was also going to ask you about the previous plant on my photostream, but in the nick of time I realised that it was Hypericum humifusum - a very different habit to other St. John's Worts. Looks like Pontederia cordata to me. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
plant ID please
In message , Bob Hobden
writes "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote ... Marginal water plant, with spikes of blue flowers. I think that it's a monocot, and perhaps an aroid. Probably cultivated (and doesn't immediately look like anything native). http://www.flickr.com/photos/27317581@N06/3961638427/ I was also going to ask you about the previous plant on my photostream, but in the nick of time I realised that it was Hypericum humifusum - a very different habit to other St. John's Worts. Looks like Pontederia cordata to me. Thanks (to all). That's it. I thought it looked vaguely familiar, but I didn't know where to start looking. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Pontederia cordata indeed. A lovely thing, although can get a little too vigorous for smaller ponds. It's not a British native (it's widespread throughout the temperate Americas) but rather a pond-plant escapee that's been slowly increasing in the British countryside for the last 50 years or so.
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