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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on April 26, 2014, 12:37:11 PM

Title: Otto's mystery plant
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 26, 2014, 12:37:11 PM

I visited Otto this afternoon and he showed me this potted plant which he rescued from a friend's glasshouse where it was "going backwards".
He's managed to revive it and it looks like it might flower soon - but what is it?? Some kind of Chinese gesneriad?
Any suggestions?
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Otto's mystery plant
Post by: ChrisB on April 26, 2014, 02:48:28 PM

No idea Fermi, but super foliage without flowers!

Title: Re: Otto's mystery plant
Post by: ThomasB on April 29, 2014, 12:06:03 PM

Looks like a Chirita to me, maybe C. sinensis (there are several forms).


Regards Thomas

Title: Re: Otto's mystery plant
Post by: Otto Fauser on May 01, 2014, 08:05:02 AM

Thank you Thomas for putting a name onmy mystery plant. There seems to be a lot of variation in the leaves of Chirita chinensis .