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What is this then?
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Can anyone please tell me what this plant is? Not been at my new place that long and still working out what is actually in the garden! http://193.122.22.224/whatisit.jpg File is 600K (ish) so sorry modem users! Thanks everyone. Mark Thomas |
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In article , Mark Thomas
writes Hello people! Can anyone please tell me what this plant is? Not been at my new place that long and still working out what is actually in the garden! http://193.122.22.224/whatisit.jpg File is 600K (ish) so sorry modem users! It's a hellebore. Someone else will tell you which one. What look like flowers are in fact bracts, modified leaves (I think) around the flowers (which are tiny), and therefore they last for ages and ages. Add to that the lovely foliage and it's a very worthwhile plant. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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Can anyone please tell me what this plant is?
Not been at my new place that long and still working out what is actually in the garden! http://193.122.22.224/whatisit.jpg File is 600K (ish) so sorry modem users! It's a hellebore. Someone else will tell you which one. What look like flowers are in fact bracts, modified leaves (I think) around the flowers (which are tiny), and therefore they last for ages and ages. Add to that the lovely foliage and it's a very worthwhile plant. Excellent thanks Kay. I agree, the foliage is lovely and certainly cheers up a dull winter garden! Thanks Mark |
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Stinking Hellebore by the looks ... see he
http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fff/g...oraNo%5D=16700 "Mark Thomas" wrote in message news Hello people! Can anyone please tell me what this plant is? Not been at my new place that long and still working out what is actually in the garden! http://193.122.22.224/whatisit.jpg File is 600K (ish) so sorry modem users! Thanks everyone. Mark Thomas |
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writes Stinking Hellebore by the looks ... see he http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fff/g...loraNo%5D=1670 0 That was my first thought, from leaf shape, flower shape and colour. But stinking hellebore (H. foetidus) has a purple edge to the inside of the 'flowers' see http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/images...s_foetidus.jpg and I couldn't see that on the pic, so I wondered H viridis? - but I'm not familiar with that. H viridis also looks cruder in leaf shape, from, eg http://www.floralimages.co.uk/pyrenees1.htm so I'm just not sure. Some of the other H foetidus pics on the web don't show the purple edge, eg http://www.turning-earth.co.uk/shade.htm but then web identifications aren't always reliable ;-) The nhm url that pookie gives should be reliable, and that shows the purple edge if you look closely, but very much less obviously than the url I gave. Stace, which is the standard flora from UK flowers, doesn't mention the purple edge as diagnostic, so perhaps it is variable. He also refers to the flowers as flowers not bracts so I was wrong there! - but they're not delicate petals as we know them, they last right through to seed formation. Stinking hellebore gets its name from the smell of the foliage when crushed, so that's one thing to try - admittedly I've never done that with mine so I can't tell you what it smells of! -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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p00kie wrote:
Stinking Hellebore by the looks ... see he http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fff/g...oraNo%5D=16700 It does indeed look like a stinking hellebore - much to my wifes disgust! lol - wasn't too keen on the sound of it thanks everyone - you came up trumps again.. Cheers mark |
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Kay wrote in message ... In article , p00kie writes Stinking Hellebore by the looks ... see he http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fff/g...lora.%5BFloraN o%5D=1670 0 That was my first thought, from leaf shape, flower shape and colour. But stinking hellebore (H. foetidus) has a purple edge to the inside of the 'flowers' see http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/images...s_foetidus.jpg and I couldn't see that on the pic, so I wondered H viridis? - but I'm not familiar with that. H viridis also looks cruder in leaf shape, from, eg http://www.floralimages.co.uk/pyrenees1.htm so I'm just not sure. Some of the other H foetidus pics on the web don't show the purple edge, eg http://www.turning-earth.co.uk/shade.htm but then web identifications aren't always reliable ;-) The nhm url that pookie gives should be reliable, and that shows the purple edge if you look closely, but very much less obviously than the url I gave. Stace, which is the standard flora from UK flowers, doesn't mention the purple edge as diagnostic, so perhaps it is variable. Does it mention purple or purplish leaves? see below. He also refers to the flowers as flowers not bracts so I was wrong there! - but they're not delicate petals as we know them, they last right through to seed formation. Stinking hellebore gets its name from the smell of the foliage when crushed, so that's one thing to try - admittedly I've never done that with mine so I can't tell you what it smells of! Hi all, long time no type :-) I am intrigued by this thread, because I have a hellebore very like this one in my garden so was interested to see what you all came up with. Mine has greener leaves than the H.foetidus in the pictures, but not broader leaves like the H.viridis. It doesn't have purple tinges to the petals. Have just been out and crushed a bit and it doesn't stink either. So I'm not convinced that it is either of those. A quick web search hasn't found anything any more likely though...... -- Holly, in France. Holiday home in the Dordogne, website: http://la-plaine.chez.tiscali.fr |
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