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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on August 08, 2018, 04:45:05 PM

Title: blue flower- dwarf, long floral tube - ID?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 08, 2018, 04:45:05 PM

A NZ member  has been asking about this on FB -  two-toned blue flowers with a long floral tube, neat little  cluster of  foliage......  anyone got a name for it?

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Title: Re: blue flower- dwarf, long floral tube - ID?
Post by: Paul Cumbleton on August 08, 2018, 05:25:56 PM

Could be Lapeirousia montana perhaps?

Paul

Title: Re: blue flower- dwarf, long floral tube - ID?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 08, 2018, 06:18:23 PM

Paul, I don't grow it so I wasn't sure. I thought you might know though!  And I think fermi grows it.

Title: Re: blue flower- dwarf, long floral tube - ID?
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 09, 2018, 12:46:51 AM

Hi Maggi,
I'd agree that it's a Lapeirousia. The forms of Lapeirousia montana I grow aren't as deep a blue but it is a variable species, I think.
Here's a pic of one of ours grown from seed from Gordon Summerfield
cheers
fermi