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fermi de Sousa

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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2020, 03:56:55 PM »
If it's that small it could be Campanula lourica.
I grew a white form a few years ago http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=207.0
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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #31 on: July 19, 2020, 03:04:52 PM »
I have a similar Campanula seeding around in my greenhouse.  I think I got it many years ago as aff. cashmeriana.  I decided, according to Graham Nicholls' book it was probably Campanula samarkandensis.  I find it behaves like a lot of Violas and produces lots of apomictic seed.



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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2020, 11:22:51 AM »
Thank you for your efforts Gerd and Fermi...


I think I found the right name...Campanula cashmeriana var. alba...I found a photo near Pavelka of which the seeds probably were. Indian Himalayas, 3300 meters.

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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #33 on: July 30, 2020, 01:33:49 PM »
Cyananthus integer x sherriffii - from Jack Drake's nursery a very long time ago.

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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #34 on: July 30, 2020, 06:30:37 PM »
This is from the 2013 seed exchange, listed as Campanula versicolor.

I have just read about C versicolor - its leaves are used as a winter salad.  From one website:  A delicious mild flavour with a slight sweetness that reminds people of freshly-picked garden peas - they can be added in quantity to salads and are usually available in winter

Well!  No one would want to eat my plants.  Prickly stems, prickly leaves. Even the deer won't eat it.

So it is obviously not C. versicolor but what is it?

« Last Edit: July 30, 2020, 08:45:47 PM by Diane Whitehead »
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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #35 on: July 30, 2020, 08:29:57 PM »
I don’t know what it is, but what a brilliant colour!
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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #36 on: July 31, 2020, 06:22:52 AM »
Well, Carolyn, I wish it really was so blue.  My iPad improved the lavender colour for me.

I've searched my three campanula books and the internet.

I think maybe it could be Campanula primulifolia.  The flowers look similar. Lewis and Lynch's book says the stems are "hispid", which means "bristly".  Tomorrow I will go out to see if the plant matches the rest of the description.
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Re: Campanula and relatives 2020
« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2020, 09:13:38 PM »
Campanula cashmeriana is still flowering.  It seeds into other pots in the greenhouse.  This one sharing a pot with Polygala calcarata is doing much better than the one I put into its own pot.  Maybe it prefers to have company.

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