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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Margaret on May 30, 2013, 08:40:49 PM

Title: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Margaret on May 30, 2013, 08:40:49 PM: Can anyone identify this Daphne for me please? I've had it about 25 years. Its 1200mm tall and the same wide and is scented.
Many thanks.

Margaret
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: ranunculus on May 30, 2013, 08:47:09 PM: Hints of Daphne giraldii?
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Maggi Young on May 30, 2013, 08:50:28 PM: Daphne pontica with that shiny foliage and spikey twin flowers, I think.

Compare : http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=4437 (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=4437)
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Jozef Lemmens on May 30, 2013, 09:59:35 PM: Probably Daphne pontica (or D. albowiana).
They are very similar, only the leaves are a little bit different.
But the fruits of D. albowiana are red and those of D. pontica are blue-black.
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Maggi Young on May 30, 2013, 10:30:53 PM: Quote from: Jozef Lemmens on May 30, 2013, 09:59:35 PM
Probably Daphne pontica (or D. albowiana).
They are very similar, only the leaves are a little bit different.
But the fruits of D. albowiana are red and those of D. pontica are blue-black.

Isn't it the other way round, Jef? :-\

http://www.daphnes.be/Daphne/daphne_albowiana.htm (http://www.daphnes.be/Daphne/daphne_albowiana.htm)
http://www.daphnes.be/Daphne/daphne_pontica.htm (http://www.daphnes.be/Daphne/daphne_pontica.htm)
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Margaret on May 30, 2013, 11:36:25 PM: Thank you Cliff, Maggi and Jozef. It's marvellous to get such a response so quickly. Afraid I've not noticed the colour of the berries. As with so many of my plants, I suspect it is growing in less than ideal conditions rather close to a willow and does not flower as profusely as the pontica that come up on a google image search. None the less I am very fond of it.
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on April 22, 2014, 07:20:17 PM: Bought this lost label Daphne from Blackthorn Nursery years ago. Flowers now, has small dull green leaves. Any ideas please!
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Maggi Young on April 22, 2014, 08:33:05 PM: Looks like it may be deciduous rather than evergreen? In which case D. caucasica ?
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on April 23, 2014, 11:48:23 AM: Yes, very likely. Quite a lax shrub to around 1m. high/wide?
Title: Re: Which Daphne please?
Post by: Maggi Young on April 23, 2014, 12:05:44 PM: Sounds right, Ralph. Open habit, semi-evergreen in places, yellow berries