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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Palustris on September 24, 2013, 09:06:48 PM

Title: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Palustris on September 24, 2013, 09:06:48 PM

Been meaning to ask what this is for a while. Makes a nice green cushion of soft leaves and flowers around now about 9 inches tall, flowers about 1/2 inch in diameter.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/September%202013%20Miscellany/P1210538.jpg)
TIA

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Maggi Young on September 24, 2013, 10:52:57 PM

 With that thin, pointed foliage.....Gypsophila tenuifolia ?

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Martinr on September 25, 2013, 09:05:31 AM

Flowers certainly look like a Gypsophila

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 25, 2013, 09:30:35 AM

Quote from: Maggi Young on September 24, 2013, 10:52:57 PM

With that thin, pointed foliage.....Gypsophila tenuifolia ?

I'd agree with the boss lady! ;D
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Palustris on September 25, 2013, 10:44:02 AM

Entirely possible. Thanks.
That makes this a Gypsophila too then.............repens?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/September%202013%20Miscellany/P1210540.jpg)

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Maggi Young on September 25, 2013, 10:56:23 AM

Feeling really impressed today that I have been promoted from dogsbody to boss lady  :D ::)
I suppose the pay scale remains the same?

Bit hard to tell from your photo, Eric, but G. repens seems likely -  pretty things, aren't they?

 P.S. Thanks for the Galtonia seed!  :-*

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Palustris on September 25, 2013, 11:56:26 AM

For some reason the camera will not focus on the leaves which is what one would need to see I suppose. This is a much more open plant rather than a cushion. The leaves are also much wder (like 1/4 of an inch at the widest) and dark green.
I have another Gypsophila,which is different again, but no picture as it did not flower this year. Normally seeds itself around too.
Wish  labels did not disappear, it would make life a lot easier.
Glad the seeds arrived. I sow ours in early Spring.

Title: Re: White flowered cushion plant
Post by: Maggi Young on September 25, 2013, 12:07:31 PM

Dark green leaves ?  Mmmm, I associate white repens with a more blue-grey leaf...... :-\