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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: gerrit on August 01, 2013, 08:59:04 PM

Title: Does this cute little plant has a name?
Post by: gerrit on August 01, 2013, 08:59:04 PM

Who could help indentify this plant?

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 01, 2013, 09:27:04 PM

Wow, a sort of semi-double Silene? I never saw that before.

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: John85 on August 02, 2013, 08:39:48 AM

A very young S.Firefly ?????

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: gerrit on August 02, 2013, 12:33:51 PM

Thanks for helping John, but I am sure it is not Silene dioicia 'Firefly' as you suggested. Look here.



http://www.esveld.nl/plantdias/35/35023.jpg (http://www.esveld.nl/plantdias/35/35023.jpg)


What you see is a double-flowered form of Silene, which Maggi and myself did not have seen before.

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: Oron Peri on August 03, 2013, 02:09:09 PM

Silene delavayi

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 03, 2013, 02:42:47 PM

Thanks, Oron!   I don't know this lovely plant at all- I'll be looking out for it now, though.

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: gerrit on August 03, 2013, 03:16:17 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on August 03, 2013, 02:42:47 PM

Thanks, Oron!   I don't know this lovely plant at all- I'll be looking out for it now, though.

That's it. Wonderful Oron. Thanks a lot. A plant worth to be propagated.

When seeds are ripe, I'll collect them and send to you, if you want, Maggi and Oron.

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 03, 2013, 03:44:41 PM

I would like that very much, Gerrit, thank you.

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: Oron Peri on August 03, 2013, 04:50:49 PM

Quote from: gerrit on August 03, 2013, 03:16:17 PM

.When seeds are ripe, I'll collect them and send to you, if you want, Maggi and Oron.

Gerrit,
many thanks for your kind offer but i think this species would not like the dry and hot conditions down here. :-\

Oron

Title: Re: Does this cute little plant have a name?
Post by: gerrit on August 03, 2013, 06:35:14 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on August 03, 2013, 03:44:41 PM

I would like that very much, Gerrit, thank you.

Promised.