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A friend found a solitary plant in woodland on Islay yesterday which neither she nor I can identify. On the assumption that it is a garden escape - there are gardens within a few hundred yards - I'm asking for help here. Photos at: www.indaal.demon.co.uk/flower.htm Thanks -- Malcolm |
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It's very given to strange flower forms - whether through hybridisation or just as sports, I'm not sure. I have a plant in my garden which has a double flower just like yours at the moment, although all the other flowers on the plant are single. And I have a photograph of one at Salt Lake Nature Reserve in the Yorkshire Dales which was cristate, with leaf segments among the petals - just the one plant growing amongst many other wood avens of normal type. I think I remember wood avens from around Ardtalla, along with a lizard basking on a rock, and swimming with seals in the sheltered bay. But it was a long time ago! |
ID help, please
On 3 June, 11:35, Janet Baraclough
wrote: The message from Malcolm contains these words: A friend found a solitary plant in woodland on Islay yesterday which neither she nor I can identify. On the assumption that it is a garden escape - there are gardens within a few hundred yards - I'm asking for help here. Photos at:www.indaal.demon.co.uk/flower.htm * I think its geum rivale; there are some named varieties which look very like it http://www.bethchatto.co.uk/plant%20...vale%20%27...* (a bit too dark?) http://www.specialperennials.com/geum.htm *(paler) * Janet No idea, all I get is The requested URL /www.indaal.demon.co.uk/flower.htm was not found on this server. |
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writes Malcolm;889567 Wrote: A friend found a solitary plant in woodland on Islay yesterday which neither she nor I can identify. On the assumption that it is a garden escape - there are gardens within a few hundred yards - I'm asking for help here. I think your wife is right, it's Wood Avens, Geum rivale. Geum rivale is water avens; wood avens is Geum urbanum. It's very given to strange flower forms - whether through hybridisation or just as sports, I'm not sure. The hybrid between the two species, Geum x intermedium, is said to be fairly common, and fertile, leading to all sorts of intermediates. (Round here Geum urbanum is ubiquitous, but I only know of two sites for Geum rivale, and I'm not familiar with the hybrid.) I have a plant in my garden which has a double flower just like yours at the moment, although all the other flowers on the plant are single. And I have a photograph of one at Salt Lake Nature Reserve in the Yorkshire Dales which was cristate, with leaf segments among the petals - just the one plant growing amongst many other wood avens of normal type. I think I remember wood avens from around Ardtalla, along with a lizard basking on a rock, and swimming with seals in the sheltered bay. But it was a long time ago! -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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I was up at Salt Lake Quarry again yesterday, and once again saw a cristate G rivale (not the same plant as I saw before), and that was almost red in flower. |
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